Monday, July 15, 2013

Ishmael Reed On Trayvon Martin, Jim Crow Media, Zimmerman Verdict

Show description for Sunday 7/14/2013 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Returning to New Day Jazz this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Ishmael Reed. We will be discussing the Trayvon Martin case, as well as whatever else the day might recommend.

Albert Ayler, pictured at right, (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970)

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Charles MingusFolk Forms, No. 1Charles Mingus Presents Charles MingusCandid
Charles MingusOriginal Faubus FablesCharles Mingus Presents Charles MingusCandid
Albert Ayler Quartet[tune Q]Holy GhostRevenant
Abbey LincolnLet UpAbbey Is BlueRiverside
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Max Roach featuring Abbey LincolnFreedom DayWe Insist!: Max Roach's Freedom Now SuiteCandid
Max Roach featuirng Abbey LincolnPrayer / Protest / PeaceWe Insist!: Max Roach's Freedom Now SuiteCandid
Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor)MixedInto The HotImpulse
Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor)PotsInto The HotImpulse
Charles MingusMoanin'Blues & RootsAtlantic
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Art BlakeyPurple ShadesArt Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious MonkAtlantic
Miles DavisBlue N' BoogieWalkin'Prestige
Miles DavisDr. Jekyll (a.k.a. Dr. Jackle)MilestonesColumbia
Julian Cannonball AdderleyArriving SoonThe Cannonball Adderley Quintet PlusRiverside
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Milt JacksonSonnymoon For Two (excerpt)StatementsImpulse
Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ishmael Reed By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ishmael Reed By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles
Milt JacksonSonnymoon For Two (excerpt)StatementsImpulse
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John TchicaiMothers (Ayler)Timo's MessageBlack Saint

Monday, July 1, 2013

A. James Arnold on Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land)


Show description for Sunday 6/30/2013 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


 Aimé Césaire, pictured at right, (June 26, 1913 – April 17, 2008)
Returning to New Day Jazz this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Professor A. James Arnold, discussing his most recent translation, in collaboration with Clayton Eshleman, of Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.)

Aimé Césaire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Césaire’s quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Césaire’s work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric—material that Césaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, given here in French, and in its first English translation, reveals a work that is both spiritual and cultural in structure, tone, and thrust. This Wesleyan edition includes the original illustrations by Wifredo Lam, and an introduction, notes, and chronology by A. James Arnold.
The first bilingual edition of this radically original work
AIMÉ CÉSAIRE (1913–2008) was best known as the cocreator of the concept of négritude. CLAYTON ESHLEMAN is a professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan University and the foremost American translator of Aimé Césaire. He is the author of The Grindstone of Rapport / A Clayton Eshleman Reader and translator of The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. A. JAMES ARNOLD is an emeritus professor of French at the University of Virginia. He is the lead editor of Césaire’s complete literary works in French (in progress) and author of Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poetics of Aimé Césaire.

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Andrew Hill Siete OchoJudgement!Blue Note
Bobby HutchersonCattaDialogueBlue Note
Andrew HillWailing WallSmokestackBlue Note
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Andrew HillDiddy WahOne For OneBlue Note
Andrew HillPoinsettaOne For OneBlue Note
Andrew Hill IllusionChangeBlue Note
Andrew HillDuplicityAndrew!!!Blue Note
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Cecil TaylorConquistadorConquistador!Blue Note
Cecil TaylorEnter, Evening (Soft Line Structure)Unit StructuresBlue Note
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Cecil TaylorYou'd Be So Nice To Come Home ToJazz AdvanceTransition
Cecil TaylorRick Kick ShawJazz AdvanceTransition
Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor)MixedInto The HotImpulse
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Cecil TaylorMirror and Water Gazing (excerpt)For OlimSoul Note
Interview With A. James Arnold By Justin DesmanglesInterview With A. James Arnold By Justin DesmanglesInterview With A. James Arnold By Justin DesmanglesInterview With A. James Arnold By Justin Desmangles
Phineas Newborn, Jr.DianeThe Newborn Touch Contemporary
Phineas Newborn, Jr.The InvisibleThe Newborn Touch Contemporary

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. On The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

Show description for Sunday 6/2/2013 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Joining us this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., author of The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop, (new from University of California Press.)
 " (Thelonious) Monk wrote for Bud. All his music was written for Bud Powell. All this piano music, he deliberately wrote for Bud because he figured Bud was the only one who could play it. He wrote for Bud just like a composer writes for a singer. And when you hear Bud play Monk's music, then you really hear something." ~ Kenny "Klook" Clarke, Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940's

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Langston HughesMother To SonLangston Hughes Reads & Talks About His PoemsSpoken Arts
Langston HughesBorder LineLangston Hughes Reads & Talks About His PoemsSpoken Arts
Langston HughesGenius ChildLangston Hughes Reads & Talks About His PoemsSpoken Arts
Langston HughesSuicide's NoteLangston Hughes Reads & Talks About His PoemsSpoken Arts
Langston HughesLittle Lyric (Of Great Importance)Langston Hughes Reads & Talks About His PoemsSpoken Arts
Langston HughesMottoLangston Hughes Reads & Talks About His PoemsSpoken Arts
Langston HughesFlatted FifthsLangston Hughes Reads & Talks About His PoemsSpoken Arts
Dizzy Gillespie All Star QuintetShaw 'NuffBebopNew World Records
Bud Powell TrioShaw 'NuffThe Essen Jazz Festival ConcertBlack Lion
Bud Powell TrioBlues In The ClosetThe Essen Jazz Festival ConcertBlack Lion
Charles Mingus featuring Bud PowellI'll Remember AprilMingus At AntibesAtlantic
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Bud PowellTempus FugitJazz GiantVerve
Bud PowellCeliaJazz GiantVerve
Bud PowellCherokeeJazz GiantVerve
Kenny Clarke & His 52nd St. BoysEpistrophyThe Bebop EraRCA
Thelonious Monk QuartetEpistrophyGenius Of Modern Music Vol. 1Blue Note
Ishmael ReedJudasConjurePangea
Thelonious MonkIn Walked BudGenius Of Modern Music Vol. 1Blue Note
Bud Powell Topsy TurvyStrictly PowellRCA
Bud PowellBuster Rides AgainTime WaitsBlue Note
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Myron O'Higgins (Gloria Foster)To A Young PoetA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
James Vaughn (Roscoe Lee Browne)from Four QuestionsA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Owen Dodson (Leon Bibb)CounterpointA HAnd Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Bud PowellUn Poco LocoThe Amazing Bud Powell! Vol. 1Blue Note
Barry HarrisUn Poco LocoLive In TokyoXanadu
Charlie Parker QuintetBuzzy Complete Charlie Parker Vol. 3BYG
Bud PowellParisian ThoroughfareThe Genius Of Bud PowellVerve
Bud PowellOblivionThe Genius Of Bud PowellVerve
Bud PowellDusk In SandiThe Genius Of Bud PowellVerve
Bud PowellHallucinations The Genius Of Bud PowellVerve
Miles Davis QuintetBudo (a.k.a. Hallucinations)FacetsCBS - France
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Bud Powell Blue PearlBud!Blue Note
Bud PowellOff MinorA Portrait Of Thelonious MonkColumbia
Bud PowellThere Will Never Be Another You (excerpt)A Portrait Of Thelonious MonkColumbia
Interview With Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. By Justin Desmangles
Bud PowellThere Will Never Be Another You (excerpt)A Portrait Of Thelonious MonkColumbia
Ishmael ReedRhythm In PhilosophyConjurePangea
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Jacke McLeanThe Three Minors HipnosisBlue Note Re-issue Series

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles

Show description for Sunday 4/21/2013 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Returning to New Day Jazz, this Sunday at 5 p.m., composer, musician, Matthew Shipp, far and away, the greatest pianist of his generation.

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Matthew Shipp4DGreatest Hits (4D)Thristy Ear
Matthew ShippStage 10Greatest Hits (Elastic Aspects)Thirsty Ear
Ivo PerelmanZapotecsThe EdgeLeo Records
Ivo PerelmanFatal ThornsThe EdgeLeo Records
Michael Bisio & Matthew ShippThe Queen's BalladFloating IceRelative Pitch
Wasimxzama Khan Naseri & Nazir AhmadKavali Music In The World Of Islam: The Human VoiceTopic: World Series
Dunya YunisAbuZelufMusic In The World Of Islam: The Human VoiceTopic: World Series
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Declared EnemyBlack PanthersSalute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute To Jean GenetRogueArt
Declared EnemyAbdallahSalute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute To Jean GenetRogueArt
Grass RootsHotttnessGrass RootsAUM - Fidelity
Ivo PerelmanDuet #12The Art Of The Duet Vol. OneLeo Records
Matthew ShippModuleGreatest Hits (One)Thirsty Ear
Matthew ShippGNGGreatest Hits (Harmonic Disorder)Thirsty Ear
Mehein fin Baqid & Dahai fin BaqidRadhaMusic In The World Of Islam: The Human VoiceTopic: World Series
Hateim Atiya Khalil SayedGa'sMusic In The World Of Islam: The Human VoiceTopic: World Series
Aqi PishakLove SongMusic In The World Of Islam: The Human VoiceTopic: World Series
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Charles MingusYsabel's Table DanceTijuana MoodsRCA
Charles MingusLos Mariachis Tijuana MoodsRCA
Matthew Shipp & Roscoe Mitchell The Physics Of Angels Matthew Shipp Duo With Roscoe Mitchell 2.13.61 Records
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Matthew ShippNew OrbitGreatest Hits (New Orbit)Thirsty Ear
Matthew ShippPsychic CounterpartElastic AspectsThirsty Ear
Matthew ShippFrame Focus (excerpt)Elastic AspectsThirsty Ear
Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Matthew Shipp By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Matthew Shipp By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles
William Parker Orchestra featuring Darius Jones, Dave Burrell, Ernie OdoomIn A Sentimental MoodEssence Of Ellington: Live In MilanoCentering Records

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Our Lady, The Great Lady Day, Miss Billie Holiday

Show description for Sunday 4/7/2013 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959)

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Countee CullenHeritageAnthology Of Negro PoetryFolkways
Billie HolidayYour Mothers Son In LawThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayIt's Like Reaching For The MoonThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayPennies From HeavenThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayLet's Call The Whole Thing OffThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayGetting Some Fun Out Of LifeThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Mal WaldronBlues For Lady DayBlues For Lady DayArista
Herbie NicholsLady Sings The BluesThe Third WorldBlue Note
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Billie HolidayHe's Funny That WayThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayMe, Myself & IThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayA Sailboat In The MoonlightThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayThis Years KissesThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Margaret WalkerKissie LeeAnthology Of Negro PoetryFolkways
Ntozake Shange (Laurie Carlos)SorryFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is EnufBuddha
Billie HolidayAin't Nobody's Businss If I DoThe Billie Holiday StoryDecca
Billie HolidayDo Your DutyThe Billie Holiday StoryDecca
Billie HolidayThem There EyesThe Billie Holiday StoryDecca
Billie HolidayGod Bless The ChildLady Sings The BluesVerve
Sonny RollinsGod Bless The ChildThe BridgeRCA
Eric DolphyGod Bless The ChildStatusPrestige
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Sterling Brown (Gloria Foster)An Old Woman RemembersA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Richard Wright (James Earl Jones)Between The World And MeA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Billie HolidayStrange FruitLady Sings The BluesVerve
Mal WaldronStrange FruitBlues For Lady DayArista
Ntozake Shange (Trazana Beverly)OneFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is EnufBuddha
Eric DolphyLeft AloneFar CryPrestige
Betty CarterDon't Weep For The LadyThe Modern Sound Of Betty CarterABC
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Billie HolidayCheek To CheekAll Or Nothing At AllVerve
Billie HolidayAlwaysStay With MeVerve
Billie HolidayHow Deep Is The OceanBillie HolidayVerve
Billie HolidayIt's Too Hot For WordsThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayThe Way You Look TonightThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayI Must Have That ManThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Billie HolidayI'll Never Be The SameThe Quintessential Billie HolidayColumbia
Langston Hughes (Ellen Holly)Mother To SonA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
James Weldon Johnson (Gloria Foster)Since You Went AwayA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Cicely Tyson)When Malindy SingsA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Billie HolidaySwing It Brother, SwingBillie Holiday Volume OneColumbia
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Ronald StoneLady Day Spring TonedNew Jazz PoetsBroadside Records
Archie SheppLady Sings The BluesLive In San FranciscoImpulse
Mal WaldronDon't ExplainMal 2Prestige
Ntozake Shange (Laurie Carlos)Abortion Cycle #1For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is EnufBuddha
Billie HolidayGloomy SundayBillie Holiday Volume OneColumbia
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Gwendolyn BrooksSong Of The Front YardAnthology Of Negro PoetryFolkways
Gwendolyn BrooksThe Preacher Ruminates Behind The SermonAnthology Of Negro PoetryFolkways

Monday, March 25, 2013

Amiri Baraka On Bayard Rustin

Show description for Sunday 3/17/2013 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Bayard Rustin

(March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987)
 Returning to New Day Jazz, Amiri Baraka joins us for a discussion of Bayard Rustin, in the 5 o'clock hour.

Fight Back Against The Right Wing Attack



ArtistSongAlbumLabel
John ColtranePursuanceA Love SupremeImpulse
John ColtranePsalmA Love SupremeImpulse
Robert Hayden (Gloria Foster, James Earl Jones, Moses Gunn)Runagate, RunagateA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Melvin B. Tolson (Josephine Premice)from The Dark Symphony: Lento GraveA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
James Weldon Johnson (James Earl Jones, Gloria Foster, Roscoe Lee Browne)from O Black And Unknown BardsA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Kenny Dorham featuring Jackie McLeanBeautiful LoveMatadorUnited Artists
Kenny Dorham featuring Bobby TimmonsPreludeMatadorUnited Artists
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Etta JonesYes Sir That's My BabyDon't Go To StrangersPrestige
Etta JonesDon't Go To StrangersDon't Go To StrangersPrestige
Sonny RollinsHe's Younger Than You AreAlfieImpulse
Louis BellsonSoftly With FeelingThunderbirdImpulse
Paul ChambersMopp Shoe Blues1st BassmanVeeJay
Charles MingusBugsComplete Candid RecordingsMosaic
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Ray Charles featuring Marjorie HendricksThe Right TimeRay Charles At NewportAtlantic
Ray CharlesI Got A WomanRay Charles At NewportAtlantic
Ray Brown / Milt Jackson featuring Marion WilliamsI've Got To Live The Life I Sing About In My SongMuch In CommonVerve
Dinah Washington A Handful Of StarsDinah '62Roulette
Count Basie featuing Joe WilliamsI'm Beginning To See The LightThe Greatest!!Verve
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Dewey RedmanBoodyThe Ear Of The BehearerImpulse
Myron O'Higgins (Gloria Foster)To A Young PoetA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
James Vaughn (Roscoe Lee Browne)from Four QuestionsA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Owen Dodson (Leon Bibb)CounterpointA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways
Marion BrownButtermilk BottomGeechee RecollectionsImpulse
John ColtraneVigil (excerpt)Kulu Se MamaImpulse
Interview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin Desmangles
John ColtraneVigil (excerpt)Kulu Se MamaImpulse
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Betty CarterSpring Can Really Hang You Up The MostThe Audience With Betty CarterBet-Car
Carmen McRaeThe Music That Makes Me DanceAlfieMainstream
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Tadd Dameron On A Misty NightThe Magic TouchRiverside

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Seth Rosenfeld on Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power.

Show description for Sunday 3/10/2013 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM



 Subversives traces the FBI’s secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld tells a dramatic and disturbing story of FBI surveillance, illegal break-ins, infiltration, planted news stories, poison-pen letters, and secret detention lists. He reveals how the FBI’s covert operations—led by Reagan’s friend J. Edgar Hoover—helped ignite an era of protest, undermine the Democrats, and benefit Reagan personally and politically. At the same time, he vividly evokes the life of Berkeley in the early sixties—and shows how the university community, a site of the forward-looking idealism of the period, became a battleground in an epic struggle between the government and free citizens.
The FBI spent more than $1 million trying to block the release of the secret files on which Subversives is based, but Rosenfeld compelled the bureau to release more than 250,000 pages, providing an extraordinary view of what the government was up to during a turning point in our nation’s history.
Part history, part biography, and part police procedural, Subversives reads like a true-crime mystery as it provides a fresh look at the legacy of the sixties, sheds new light on one of America’s most popular presidents, and tells a cautionary tale about the dangers of secrecy and unchecked power.

 Joining us this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, author Seth Rosenfeld, discussing his most recent book, Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power.

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Richard Wright (James Earl Jones)Fear (excerpt)Native SonCaedmon
Miles Davis All-StarsBlue 'N BoogieWalkin'Prestige
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Rhythm-A-NingArt Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious MonkAtlantic
Max RoachBemsha SwingThe Many Sides of MaxMercury
Sonny RollinsIf You Were The Only Girl In The WorldSonny Rollins And The Big BrassMetrojazz
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Richard Wright (James Earl Jones)Fear (excerpt)Native SonCaedmon
Jackie McLeanA Fickle SonanceA Fickle SonanceBlue Note
Ornette ColemanGood Old DaysThe Empty FoxholeBlue Note
Ornette ColemanThe Empty FoxholeThe Empty FoxholeBlue Note
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Lennie TristanoIntuitionLennie TristanoCapitol
Lennie TristanoDigressionLennie TristanoCapitol
Warne MarshLennie's PenniesWarne OutFlyright
Lee KonitzBabySpiritsMilestone
Steve LacyFour In OneReflectionsNew Jazz
Steve LacySkippyReflectionsNew Jazz
Sonny RollinsGrand StreetSonny Rollins And The Big BrassMetrojazz
Sonny RollinsManhattanSonny Rollins And The Big BrassMetrojazz
Sonny RollinsBody & SoulSonny Rollins And The Big BrassMetrojazz
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Max RoachA Night In TunisiaMax Roach + 4 At NewportEmArcy
Interview With Seth Rosenfeld By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Seth Rosenfeld By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Seth Rosenfeld By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Seth Rosenfeld By Justin Desmangles
Art Ensemble Of ChicagoTthinitthedalen Part Two The Paris SessionArista
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Robert JohnsonI'm A Steady Rolling ManKing Of The Delta Blues Vol. 2Columbia