Links tagged with “jazz”
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Energy Flash: rave before rave
Scroll down for the/a origin of raves at George Melly and Mick Mulligan’s West End Jazz Club.
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The 1959 Project
I’m liking this blog, one post per day, about some things from that day in the world of jazz in 1959. Nicely done (aside from the lack of any navigation). (via Kottke)
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Ian Penman reviews ‘Mod’ by Richard Weight · LRB 29 August 2013
This is packed with good stuff. The differences between the fans of trad and modern jazz. Mods as continental modernists, aesthetes. Mods compared to other subcultures. “Tellyology”: shaping history with both eyes on a potential TV series. Ray Davies. Miles Davis. Blur. Noel Gallagaher. Today’s Mod revival as a ploddy “dad rock” conservatism. The British Music Experience.
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The Online Photographer: Open Mike: Jazz Starter Kit
One jazz-lover’s guide to getting into jazz, what things to listen to. (I like guides to a field by people who know something, even if it’s impossible to be objective about it.)
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Sheet Music Plus - World’s Best Piano Arrangements
“100 Golden Standards Arranged by the Greatest Pianists of the Century!”
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BBC - Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2003 - Bembeya Jazz
To listen to later.
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BBC Radio 3 - Building a Jazz Library
Not as good as the NPR one, and oddly focuses on individual tracks, rather than albums.
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NPR Basic Jazz Record Library
With discussion about each album in audio or transcript form.