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In 1960, Miles Davis, along with his regular band, was booked to go on a concert tour in Western Europe as part of the ongoing, and internationally famous, “Jazz at the Philharmonic” concert series. However, at exactly that time, John Coltrane, who played tenor saxophone, was preparing to leave Davis’s quintet and form his own working group. (Click on the picture to read the article in The New Yorker) 
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Conversation with Quincy Jones2/18/2018 Quincy Jones is a music legend that knows stuff: the secret of Michael Jackson, the murderer of JFK and how to date Ivanka Trump. And that John Coltrane's Giant Steps is, in fact, 12-tone music. >> (Click on the picture to read the interview on Vulture.com)  Muhal Richard Abrams dies at 871/29/2018 Crossing borders between jazz, classical and 'new' music Muhal Richard Abrams, a pianist and composer of staunch independence and sweeping influence, has died. As a composer, Abrams worked in a billowing sprawl of settings, from solo to quartet to big band and beyond.
The jazz-ass super trio from Minneapolis has a new album and a new pianist. >> (Click on the album pic below to read the article in the New York Times)  He played angular and slow when the fashion was for fast and sun-drenched. And a misdiagnosed bipolar condition meant he retreated into silence for the last years of his life. But now the pianist’s singular talent is finally being heard. >> (Click on the photo to read the article in The Guardian)  Highest Rated Jazz Albums1/24/2018 Lists. As senseless as they are fun. In the article below you will find lists of high rated jazz albums of 2017 and earlier.  (Click on the album pic for link to the article in The Guardian)
Upon the demise of Hugh Masekela1/24/2018 ‘Father of South African jazz’, who had career spanning more than five decades, dies aged 78  The Guardian (23.1.2018) (Click on photo for link to article)
Bebop Chicken Chili1/22/2018 Fans of the great Charlie Parker know that great chili is synonymous with the birth of bebop. It was during a 1939 jam session at Dan Wall’s Chili House in Harlem that Parker hit the upper chord improvisation that many credit as the lightning bolt moment that became bebop.
10 of the best jazz clubs in Europe1/19/2018  The Guardian (2.2.2016)
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