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This day (April 2, 1987), in Los Angeles, California, died Bernard ‘Buddy’ Rich, an American jazz drummer and bandleader. (more…)
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This day (April 2, 1987), in Los Angeles, California, died Bernard ‘Buddy’ Rich, an American jazz drummer and bandleader. (more…)
This day (April 2, 2016), in New York City, died Leandro ‘Gato’ Barbieri, an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. (more…)
Hiromi Uheara’s ‘Spark”‘ is her tenth album recorded with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips and released on April 1, 2016 by Concord.
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 Columbia
This day (March 31, 2006), in Hartford, Connecticut, died John Lenwood ‘Jackie’ McLean, an American jazz alto saxophonist. (more…)
Grover Washington, Jr.’s ‘Soul Box’ is his third album arranged by Bob James, recorded in March 1973 and released the same year by Kudu Records.
Miles Davis‘ ‘Dark Magus’ is a live double album recorded on March 30, 1974 at Carnegie Hall in New York City and released in 1977 by CBS.
Herbie Hancock‘s ‘Sextant’ is his eleventh album (and the last with his Mwandishi Band) released on March 30, 1973 by Columbia.
Mulatu Astatke‘s ‘Steps Ahead‘ is his first solo album since the 1980s released on March 29, 2010 by Strut Records.
This day (March 29, 2001), in New York City, died John Aaron Lewis, an American jazz pianist, composer and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. (more…)
Lalo Schifrin‘s ‘Black Widow’ is an album featuring, among others, Patti Austin on vocals and recorded on March 29 & 30, 1976 and released the same year by CTI