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Me:nu Du Jour September 16 (EN.FR.ES)

>> EN FRANCAIS | >> EN ESPAÑOLTODAY We Listen To Buena Vista Social Club, Erykah Badu, Talking Heads, Raphael Saadiq, Barbra Streisand, Joss Stone, Mariah Carey, Beach Boys, Bob Welch, David Bowie, Madeleine Peyroux,...

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Abbey Lincoln records her third album : ‘It’s Magic,’ with Benny Golson, Wynton Kelly et al (1958)

Abbey Lincoln's 'It's Magic' is her third album recorded on July 24 and August 15, 1958 and released the same year by Riverside.Track Listing : 1.I Am In Love (Cole...

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The Manhattan Transfer release their twelfth album : ‘The Offbeat Of Avenues’ (1991)

The Manhattan Transfer's 'The Offbeat Of Avenues' is their twelfth album released on August 13, 1991 by Columbia.Track listing : 1.The Offbeat of Avenues (Cheryl Bentyne, Prince) - 04:55 ....

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We remember Annie Ross. ‘A Ross Garden’

This day (July 21, 2020), in New York City, died Annie Ross, Scottish jazz singer and actress, best known as a member of the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.Digest Tracklist...

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Ella Fitzgerald records ‘Montreux ’77’ with the Tommy Flanagan Trio at the Montreux Jazz Festival (1977)

Ella Fitzgerald's 'Montreux '77' is a live album recorded on July 17, 1977 with the Tommy Flanagan Trio and released In 1977 by PabloTrack Listing : 1.Too Close For Comfort...

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Sarah Vaughan records ‘Sarah Sings Soulfully’ arranged by Gerald Wilson (1963)

Sarah Vaughan's 'Sarah Sings Soulfully' is a studio album recorded on June 6,12, 1963 and arranged by Gerald Wilson. Track Listing : 1.A Taste Of Honey (Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott)...

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Happy Birthday Gonzalo Rubalcaba. ‘Rubalcaba De Cuba’

This day (May 27, 1963), in Havana, Cuba, is born Gonzalo Rubalcaba, a Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer.Tracklist : 1 . Joy, Joie (2019) 2 . Gitaneria (2018)...

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Antonio Carlos Jobim records his debut ‘American’ album : ‘The Composer of Desafinado Plays’ (1963)

Antonio Carlos Jobim's 'The Composer of Desafinado Plays' is his debut US album recorded May 9 and 10, 1963 and released the same year in 1963 by Verve.Track Listing :...

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Happy Birthday to Ron Carter. ‘Beau Ron’

This day (May 4, 1937), in Ferndale, Michigan, is born Ron Carter, an American jazz double-bassist. Tracklist : 1 . w/ Al Foster & Eli Degibri – United Blues (2019)...

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Modern Jazz Quartet record their ‘European Concert’ album in Sweden (1960)

Modern Jazz Quartet's 'European Concert' is a live album recorded on April 11, 12 & 13, 1960 in Sweden and released In 1962 by Atlantic.Track Listing : 1.Django (John Lewis)...

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Lincoln Center premieres Wynton Marsalis’ oratorio ‘Blood on the Fields’ (1994)

Wynton Marsalis' 'Blood on the Fields' is a three-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio composed by Marsalis, premiered on April 1, 1994 at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hal and released in 1995 by...

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Blue Note publishes Eliane Elias seventh album : ‘Fantasia’ (1992)

Eliane Elias 'Fantasia' is her seventh studio album recorded in New-York City and released in March, 1992 by Blue Note.Track Listing : 1.The Girl From Ipanema (Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos...

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Jazzin the Samba

From 'Samba De Minha Terra' to 'Samba de Una Nota So (One Note Samba)' , we have mixed 18 'Jazzified Samba' tunes around the theme of 'Real Jazzmen Doing Brazilian...

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Island publish Amy Winehouse’s second album : ‘Back to Black’ featuring ‘Rehab’ and ‘You Know I’m No Good’ (2006)

Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' is her second (and the last released in her lifetime) studio album released on October 27, 2006 by Island Records.Track Listing : 1.Rehab (Amy Winehouse)...

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Dire Straits release’Making Movies,’ their third album featuring ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (1980)

Dire Straits' 'Making Movies' feat. 'Romeo and Juliet' is their third studio album produced by Jimmy Iovine & frontman Mark Knopfler and released on October 17, 1980 by Vertigo /...

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RCA publish ‘Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics,’ her thirty eigth album (2014)

'Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics' is her thirty eigth studio album featuring ten covers of songs made famous by female artists and released on October 17, 2014 by...

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Me:nu Du Jour October 9 (EN.FR.ES)

>> EN FRANCAIS | >> EN ESPAÑOLTODAY We Listen To Michael Bublé, Leonard Cohen, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Thelonious Monk We Celebrate John Lennon, Yusef Lateef, PJ Harvey, Jackson Browne, Nona Hendryx, Kenny Garrett,...

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Michael Bublé releases his sixth album : ‘Crazy Love’ (2009)

Michael Bublé's 'Crazy Love' is his sixth studio album released on October 9, 2009 by 143 Records..Track Listing : 1.Cry Me A River (Arthur Hamilton) - 04:14 . 2.All Of...

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Four Jazz Messengers Euro Gigs

On October 9, 1989, two days before his 70th birthday, Art Blakey took his Jazz Messengers to the Leverkusen Jazz festival in Germany.

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Stevie Wonder releases his eighteenth album : ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ featuring ‘Sir Duke’ ‘Pastime Paradise’ and ‘I Wish’ (1976)

Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' is his eighteenth album released on September 28, 1976 by Motown Records.Track Listing : 1.Love'S In Need Of Love Today (Stevie Wonder)...

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