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This week In Jazz Legends (Special Pianists) 45/52

How well do you know the music of Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Keith Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Joe Zawinul, Bill Evans, Vijay Iyer, Dave Brubeck, Hiromi, Count...

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This week In Jazz Legends 44/52

How well do you know the music of Lou Donaldson, Thelonious Monk, Roy Hargrove, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus,...

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This week In Jazz Legends 42/52

How well do you know the music of Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Illinois Jacquet, Ray Brown, Roy Eldridge, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Flip...

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This week In Jazz Legends 40/52

How well do you know the music of Coleman Hawkins, Art Farmer, Jim Hall, Anita O’Day, Oscar Peterson, Ray Bryant, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Billy...

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This week In Jazz Legends 32/52

How well do you know the music of Duke Ellington, Charles Lloyd , Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Robert Glasper, McCoy Tyner, Michael Brecker, Ravi Coltrane, Christian McBride, Roy Haynes, Thelonious...

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This week In Jazz Legends 21/52

Christian Scott, Quintet, Bob James, David Sanborn, George Benson, Southside Aces, Evan Christopher, Irvin Mayfield, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lou Donaldson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Camilo, Tomatito, Ramsey...

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This week In Jazz Legends 10/52

Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Billy Cobham, Sonny Rollins, Ernestine Anderson, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Buddy Rich & His Orchestra, Freddie Hubbard, Les Mccann & Eddie Harris, Duke...

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Michel Petrucciani records ‘Solo Live’ at  The ‘Alte Oper’ In Frankfurt (1997)

Michel Petrucciani's 'Solo Live' is a piano album recorded on February 27,1997 in Frankfurt and released in 1998 By Dreyfus.Track Listing : 1.Looking Up (Michel Petrucciani) - 04:24 . 2.Besame...

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Sun Ra & the Arkestra record ‘Sunrise in Different Dimensions’ live in Switzerland (1980)

Sun Ra Arkestra's 'Sunrise in Different Dimensions' is a live album recorded on February 24, 1980 at the Gasthof Morhen in Willisau, Switzerland and released in 1981 by Hathut.Track Listing...

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Steely Dan release their third album ‘Pretzel Logic’ featuring ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number’ (1974)

Steely Dan's 'Pretzel Logic' is their third studio album fully written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and released on February 20, 1974 by ABC.Track Listing : 1.Rikki Don'T Lose...

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Stacey Kent records ‘The Boy Next Door’ an album for Candid Records (2003)

Stacey Kent's 'The Boy Next Door' is an album recorded on February 18-22, 2003 and released on August 26, 2003 by Candid Records.Track Listing : 1.The Best Is Yet To...

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Archie Shepp records ‘Fire Music,’ an album Impulse! (1965)

Archie Shepp's 'Fire Music' is a studio album recorded on February 16 and March 9, 1965 and released the same year 1965 by Impulse!.Track Listing : 1.Hambone (Archie Shepp) -...

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Sarah Vaughan records ‘Swingin’ Easy,’ an album for Emarcy (1957)

Sarah Vaughan's 'Swingin' Easy' is an album recorded (partly) on February 14, 1957 and released the same year by Emarcy.Track Listing : 1.Shulie A Bop (George Treadwell, Sarah Vaughan) -...

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We remember Louie Bellson. ‘Bellson’s Drum Roll Fades’

This day (February 14, 2009), in Los Angeles, California, died Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni a.k.a. Louie Bellson, an Italian-American jazz drummer and bandleader.Tracklist : 1 . Setting Up...

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Benny Goodman records ‘Together Again!’ a reunion album with Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa (1963)

Benny Goodman's 'Together Again!' is a reunion album recorded on February 13 & 14, 1963 with Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa and released the same year by RCA.Track...

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Blue Note publish Norah Jones’ second album : ‘Feels Like Home’ featuring ‘Sunrise’ (2004)

Norah Jones's 'Feels Like Home' is her second album released on February 10, 2004 by Blue Note.Track Listing : 1.Sunrise (Norah Jones, Lee Alexander) - 03:20 . 2.What Am I...

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Dizzy Gillespie records ‘An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet’ live at MOMA in New York City (1961)

'An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet' is a live album recorded on February 9, 1961 at Museum of Modern Art in New York City and released the same...

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This week In Soul Artists 06/52

How well do you know the music of Whitney Houston’s "You Give Good Love" introduced her voice with a restrained elegance, aiming for niche resonance while hinting at her potential;...

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Frank Sinatra records his ninth album for Capitol : ‘In the Wee Small Hours’ arranged by Nelson Riddle (1955)

Frank Sinatra's 'In the Wee Small Hours' is his ninth studio album arranged by Nelson Riddle, recorded on March 1, 1954, February 8 & March 4, 1955 and released in...

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Columbia publish Tony Bennett’s tribute album to Billie Holiday : ‘Tony Bennett on Holiday’ (1997)

'Tony Bennett on Holiday' is a studio album recorded in tribute to Billie Holiday and released on February 4, 1997 by Columbia.Track Listing : 1.(In My) Solitude (Eddie Delange, Duke...

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