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The most successful albums on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2016 were Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and Gregory Porter 's fourth album Take Me to the Alley, both of which spent ten weeks at the top spot. [2] [4] Porter spent a further six weeks at number one with Liquid Spirit. [5] The various artists compilation The Jazz Album ...
5 days ago · Earth Tongues - Anemone (Neither Nor, 2024) Monday, May 06, 2024 No comments. By Stef Gijssels. The liner notes in the album explain the album's title: " The experience might be best summed up by a line from George Oppen’s “Route”— “The sea anemone dreamed of something, filtering the sea water thru its body”, meaning that the ...
5 days ago · 5: Cal Tjader. Despite his Swedish ancestry, St. Louis-born Tjader – a former drummer for Dave Brubeck and vibraphonist for George Shearing – became an unlikely doyen of New York’s Latin ...
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1 day ago · 2017–18 >. The 2016–17 Golden State Warriors season was the 71st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and its 55th in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the climax season of the Warriors’ dynasty, they won their fifth NBA championship, setting the best postseason record in NBA history by going 16–1. [2]
4 days ago · The Stratos Ensemble approaches its music from an ambient and progressive style rather than the traditional, non-idiomatic, free-jazz school of thought. Its focus is on textured audio exploration as much as musicianship, and its performances often extend into epic, long-form sets of sonic and melodic exploration, moving through peaks and valleys of intensity and emotional
1 day ago · divr – Is This Water (We Jazz, 2024) By Fotis Nikolakopoulos. The music of divr, the trio of Philipp Eden on piano, Raphael Walser on double bass and Jonas Ruther on drums, is new to my ears. Their take on improvised music includes a pop sensibility (is it just me or the wonderful artwork is their first message towards this direction?) that ...
4 days ago · Jazz’s roots are in the city: New Orleans, Chicago, New York, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Detroit have at various times been major incubators for jazz. Jazz has always been an urban music, tied to urban nightlife, Prohibition, vice zones, dance halls, inner city neighborhoods, and concert stages.
