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Clifford Jordan Beyond Paradiso (NJA 2024)

Clifford found his Jordanaires in Holland. nmistakable tone defines the greats, whether it’s icons like Lester Young or John Coltrane or ...
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Louis Smith Prancin’ (Steeplechase 1979)

Mr. Smith goes to Copenhagen. As a matter of speaking. hort but sweet. That is what you would call the career ...
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Pony Poindexter Gumbo! (New Jazz 1963)

Pony in the parade. ony Poindexter spent most of his life on the West Coast, in Spain and Germany, but he ...
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Interviews

Ricardo Me

Portuguese guitarist Ricardo Pinheiro is all about melody and tone and meanwhile making up musical stories with a who’s who ...
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Swinging The Melody

Parisian bass player Cédric Caillaud has very original and specific ideas about how to expand on the tradition. “There are ...
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Zing went the strings of his heart

Lyrical alto saxophonist and canny jazz entrepreneur Tom van der Zaal thought big and cooked up an album with strings ...
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King Queen pt. 2

Here’s part 2 for you and yours, Alvin Queen talking about his stint with Horace Silver, the European continent of ...
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