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

>> EN FRANCAIS | >> EN ESPAÑOLTODAY We Listen To Bob Dylan, Ice Cube, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Coldplay, Beach Boys, Maroon 5, Miles Davis, Branford Marsalis, Billy Cobham, Roy Haynes We Celebrate Janet...

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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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Me:nu Du Jour May 5 (EN.FR.ES)

>> EN FRANCAIS | >> EN ESPAÑOLTODAY We Listen To Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Kamasi Washington, Charles Mingus, Joe Lovano, Stan Getz, Bill Evans We Celebrate Adele, Chris Brown, Craig David, Johnnie...

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Me:nu Du Jour May 4 (EN.FR.ES)

>> EN FRANCAIS | >> EN ESPAÑOLTODAY We Listen To Bill Withers, Dionne Warwick, Frank Zappa, Isley Brothers, Stevie Wonder, PJ Harvey, Deftones, The Cure, Mumford & Sons, Echo & The Bunnymen, X, John...

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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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This week In Jazz Legends (Special Pianists) 16/52

Earl Hines, Don Pullen, Count Basie, Roland Hanna, Keith Jarrett, Mccoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Terry Riley

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

>> EN FRANCAIS | >> EN ESPAÑOLTODAY We Listen To Tom Waits, The Rolling Stones, Junior Wells, Jim Hall, Thelonious Monk, Bert Jansch We Celebrate Akon, Henry Mancini, Herbie Mann, Esbjörn Svensson We Watch...

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Jim Hall records ‘Concierto’ with Paul Desmond, Chet Baker, Steve Gadd et al (1975)

Jim Hall's 'Concierto' is an album recorded on April 16 & 23, 1975 with Paul Desmond, Chet Baker, Ron Carter, Steve Gadd and Roland Hanna and released the same year...

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Four 80s Concerts with Herbie Hancock

To celebrate Herbie Hancock, who turns 83 today - Happy Birthday BTW - we have put together four of his Eighties (and acoustic) concerts (Tokyo, Lugano, Munich and Hambourg).

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