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Editor's Note: Remember That Nor'easter I Predicted?
As I posted last week, New York has been due for a Nor’easter snow storm this frigid winter.
11 hrs ago • Marc Myers
Shorty Rogers: 'Fourth Dimension in Sound,' 1961
Shorty Rogers was one of the founders of West Coast jazz.
Feb 20 • Marc Myers
Oliver Nelson: The Vocalist Years
17 audio tracks that feature the exceptional arranger scoring for jazz vocalists
Feb 19 • Marc Myers
Cootie Williams in the 1940s and '50s
Throughout the 20th century, jazz never ran short of superb trumpeters.
Feb 18 • Marc Myers
The Skip-Jacks on LPs and TV
This tight-harmony vocal group recorded two albums and quite a few themes
Feb 17 • Marc Myers
Mosaic: 'Classic V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions'
This 10-CD box is the label's best band collection since its Shaw and Webb boxes
Feb 16 • Marc Myers
Editor's Note: Blue Skies, With Trepidation
Winter eases its grip on New York, a new Bill Evans movie and a Serge Chaloff tribute
Feb 14 • Marc Myers
Wayne Shorter: 'Juju,' 1964
The album is one of the finest jazz releases on the Blue Note label
Feb 13 • Marc Myers
Shelly Manne: 'Checkmate,' 1961
Probably the finest jazz interpretation of an early-'60s TV crime series
Feb 12 • Marc Myers
WSJ: Gina Gershon
Gina Gershon is an actress known for the films Showgirls, Bound, Woody Allen’s Rifkin’s Festival and the TV series The Assassin, as well as Curb Your…
Feb 12 • Marc Myers
Bill Evans at Brandeis: A 1957 Eyewitness
Bassist Chuck Israels was at the university when the pianist soloed on 'All About Rosie'
Feb 11 • Marc Myers
Jazz Meets the TV Themes Craze
Ten albums that tapped into the appeal of the new television music
Feb 10 • Marc Myers
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