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Jammin’ the Blues By the time Norman Granz completed production work on Jammin’ the Blues, Warner Bros paid him $240 and banned him from their lot for the rest of his life....
Mr. and Mrs. Jacquet of Broussard, Louisiana enjoyed a Halloween treat 89 years ago today with the birth of their son Jean Baptiste Illinois. Jonah Jones, trumpet star of Cab Calloway’s...
I spoke with Gunther Schuller for the first time last November around the occasion of his 85th birthday. I’d played some of his music to mark that milestone, and was...
Word arrived this morning of the death of Paul Motian. The drummer was 80. Motian was born in Philadelphia and raised in Providence. He played around New England in...