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jazzrelatedstuff:

Bill Evans.
musician-photos:

John Coltrane, Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ 1957.
This photograph was used for the front cover of Lush Life.
atane:

Duke…
deeploungemusic:

Jimmy Smith
atane:

Mingus Ah Um
John Coltrane - Naima

sextuplet:

John Coltrane - Naima

(Source: averymerryprankster)

jazzinbooks:

BUCKWHEAT’S ZYDECO: A Congo Square Tribute to the Spirit of Southwest Louisiana
By R. Gregory Christie
Before Congo Square hosted the first Jazz Fest, before it became the spiritual center of Jazz Fest’s celebration of Afro-Caribbean influences on American art, it was America’s original musical melting pot. Its core position in the development of Louisiana’s cultural gifts to the world is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the interplay that birthed Zydeco. Zydeco is the modern embodiment of Southwest Louisiana’s Creole music, which originated in the mid-1800s on plantations around St. Charles Parish and migrated the short distance to the historical Congo Square. Modern Zydeco evolved a half-century later, in those same Creole communities on the Louisiana prairies during the 1920’s, drawing from blues, Jazz, R&B and Cajun influences. Congo Square thus served the extraordinary role in Zydeco’s development of both hosting the music’s earliest expressions and influencing its modern form in a virtuous two-step feedback loop that set the world dancing.
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Kenny Burrell - Saturday Night Blues

noesmusicalmeandering:

Kenny Burrell - Saturday Night Blues

Midnight Blue (1963)

(Source: noesjazzmeandering)

mosaicrecords:

Louis Armstrong 101
This page “Louis’s Music Class” on Smithsonian Jazz is a good starter to explore the music of Louis Armstrong, although it starts rightly with the Hot Five & Hot Seven and jumps to “What A Wonderful World.”
-Michael Cuscuna
Read, Listen…
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other-phtgrphy:

Sonny Rollins by Dana Lixenberg
chaboneobaiarroyoallende:

Arthur “Art” Tatum, Jr. (1909-1956)
piratetreasure:

herbie
atane:

Freddie Hubbard - Here to Stay
jazzrelatedstuff:

Ron Carter, by Geert Vandepoele.