Favorite Reissues and Historical Releases of 2007
Posted in Jazz Notes on Dec 31st, 2007
Take with the usual grain/caveat of subjectivity–that said, here are some titles from a year-for-the-ear in review…
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ESP is back…
Posted in Jazz Notes on Aug 22nd, 2007
…gotcher Brooklyn right here. My colleague Joe Bourne received a box full of ESP disks the other day, including gems from Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and much, much more. Evidently he’s been living right, and I’ve been… well, erm, coming up short in the jazz karma department or something. But it’s good news…
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- Night Lights on Labor Day–Chicago and Elsewhere
- When Sonny Slayed the Dragon
- Songs for Some Jazz Fathers: Shorter, Silver and Wilson
- Play It in the Closet: the Return Farewell of J.D. Salinger
- Jazz News of Note
- Dick Twardzik Bio Lives!
- The Little Giant Steps On: Johnny Griffin, 1928-2008
- I’ll Be Seeing You: Jo Stafford, 1917-2008
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