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JAZZBO NOTES ESSENTIAL RECORDING
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Most of the time, I don’t much like compilations. Usually, if a performer is worth plunking down money to listen to, it’s more enlightening and entertaining to listen to key recordings rather than rely on someone else’s judgement of what is essential and what isn’t.
But occasionally, there are performers I like, […]
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JAZZBO NOTES ESSENTIAL RECORDING
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This collection gathers some of the early material of Machito and His Afro-Cubans, before Machito’s brother-in-law Mario Bauza started bringing in notable jazz performers as guests in the band, so the music has glints of big band jazz circa 1940, but most of the time, it’s pretty much straight up Cuban […]
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JAZZBO NOTES ESSENTIAL RECORDING
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As regular readers of this website know, I tend to focus on jazz since the 60s, but every once in a while, I have to make an exception. Art Tatum was mostly a stride, boogie woogie, and swing pianist. All of these are styles which are rarely […]
