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Jazz

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Kenny Wheeler: Suite for Hard Rubber Orchestra

Review of CD of Kenny Wheeler's music

Whitney Balliett and 1960s Jazz Musicians

Whitney Balliett's attitude to 1960s jazz musicians in his New Yorker columns

Duke Ellington: The Private Collection

Analysis of the 10 CDs of The Private Collection by the Duke Ellington Orchestra

Stan Getz, Sweet Rain: Must-Have Jazz Album #2

Jazz Album description

John Dankworth: A Definitive Concept Album

Arguing for a narrower definition of a concept album

Wayne Shorter: The Blue Note Albums (1964-1970)

Survey of Shorter's eleven Blue Note Albums

Bob Thiele, Record Producer Extraordinaire

Thiele's career and contribution to jazz

Benny Carter, Further Definitions: Must-Have Jazz Album #1

Must-Have Jazz LPs series: description of Further Definitions LP and justification for selection

Willis Conover: Music as Propaganda

Conover's VOA broadcasts during the Cold War used music to promote the USA.

Dinner with Mingus

Account of a 1960s dinner with Charles Mingus

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