Ron Carter

This week In Jazz Legends 04/52

How well do you know the music of Wes Montgomery’s “West Coast Blues” showcases his inventive thumb-picked technique and octave work, supported by Tommy Flanagan’s piano and Percy Heath’s bass,...

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‘L’Amour Toujours’ N°622 – Vintage 90s Music Videos

How well do you know the music of Chris Rea, P.M. Dawn, Rachid, Belinda Carlisle, Culture Club, Tom Cochrane, Secret Service, Al Green, Wet Wet Wet, Dannii Minogue, Happy Mondays,...

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‘Music For The Dancers’ N°574 – Vintage 2000s Music Videos

How well do you know the music of Aaron Carter, Chico, Fast Food Rockers, Spice Girls, Fannypack, Samim, A*teens, Jean Jacques Smoothie, Ugly Duckling, Alexandra Burke, Trinity-X, Push ? Take...

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This week In Jazz Legends (collaborations) 37/52

How well do you know the music of Bobby McFerrin, The LCJO Randy Crawford, Joe Sample, Kenny Garrett, Roy Ayers, Oscar D'Leon, Steve Turre, Joe Zawinul, Trilok Gurtu, Freddie Hubbard,...

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‘Music For The Dancers’ N°240 – Vintage 2000s Music Videos

How well do you know the music of Calvin Harris, Jamiroquai, Bomfunk MC's, Nelly Furtado, Aaron Carter, Armand Van Helden, Milky, Céline Dion, NSYNC, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ms. Dynamite, Melanie C...

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This week In Jazz Legends 23/52

Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Monty Alexander, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, Hilton Ruiz, Cyrus Chestnut, Berklee Sextet, Paquito D'Rivera,...

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This week In Jazz Legends 22/52

Roy Hargrove Quintet, Wynton Marsalis, Eliane Elias, Mary Lou Williams, Christian McBride, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Doc Cheatham, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, Joe Henderson, Sun Ra Arkestra ,...

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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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Terence Blanchard releases his nineteenth album : ‘Magnetic’ (2013)

"Magnetic" by Terence Blanchard is the nineteenth album, released on May 27, 2013.Track Listing : 1.Magnetic (Terence Blanchard) - 07:02 . 2.Jacob'S Ladder (Joshua Crumbly) - 07:59 . 3.Don'T Run...

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Joe Henderson records ‘Power to the People’ with Herbie Hancock and Jack DeJohnette (1969)

Joe Henderson's 'Power to the People' is an album recorded on May 23 & 29, 1969 with among others Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette and released in 1969 by Milestone.Track Listing...

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Sam Rivers records ‘Contours’ with Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock et al (1965)

Sam Rivers' 'Contours' is his second (fully avant-garde) album recorded on May 21, 1965 and released the same year by Blue Note.Track Listing : 1.Point Of Many Returns (Sam Rivers)...

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We Remember Elvin Jones. ‘Heavy Elvin’

This day (May 18, 2004), in Englewood, New Jersey, died Elvin Jones, an American jazz drummer.Tracklist : 1 . Night In Tunisia (1999) 2 . A Love Supreme (1997) 3...

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Blue Note publish Herbie Hancock’s fifth album : ‘Maiden Voyage’ (1965)

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Happy Birthday Billy Cobham. ‘One More Year B.C.’

This day (May 16, 1944), in Panama, is born Billy Cobham, a Panamanian American jazz drummer.Tracklist : 1 . Crosswinds Project – 6 (2018) 2 . Radioactive (2017) 3 ....

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Billy Cobham records debut album : ‘Spectrum’ for Atlantic (1973)

Billy Cobham's 'Spectrum' is his debut album recorded on May 14, 15 & 16, 1973 and released on October 1, 1973 by Atlantic. Track Listing : 1.Quadrant 4 (Billy Cobham)...

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We Remember B.B. King. ‘Long Lived The King’

This day (May 14, 2015), in Las Vegas, died Riley B. King a.k.a. B.B. King (B.B. short for Blues Boy), an American blues guitarist and singer.Tracklist : 1 . In...

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Miles Davis records ‘Seven Steps to Heaven’ produced By Teo Macero for Columbia (1963)

Miles Davis' 'Seven Steps to Heaven' is his eighth studio album recorded April 16-17 and May 14, 1963 and released the same year In 1963 by Columbia Records..Track Listing :...

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We remember Chet Baker. ‘Chet After Chet’

This day (May 13, 1988), in Amsterdam, Netherlands, died Chesney Henry Baker, Jr. a.k.a Chet Baker, an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Tracklist : 1 . Blue In Green (1988)...

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We remember Woody Shaw. ‘Shaw Time’

This day (May 10, 1989), in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, died Woody Shaw, an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist.Tracklist : 1 . w/ Herbie Hancock & Art Blakey...

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Columbia publish ‘Big Fun,’ an album by Miles Davis recorded over a period of four years (1974)

Miles Davis 'Big Fun' is a double album recorded between 1969 and 1972 and released on April 19, 1974 by Columbia.Track Listing : 1.Great Expectations (Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul) /...

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