Friday, January 9, 2026

Focus on Sanity - Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Things to Come

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From Leonard Feather's November 11, 1961 Downbeat blindfold test with pianist, composer, arranger, conductor André  Previn: The Records...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

『Dave Brubeck Quartet：Dave Digs Disney』

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“George Avakian’s sleeve note recounted the story of Brubeck—by then a father of five—calling him from a phone booth in Disneyland during a ...

Snow - Prepared Piano - Jessica Williams

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Jessica Williams - The Prepared Piano Revelations

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  ‘I hit the notes and I saw colours’ … Jessica Williams in 2000. Photograph: Peter Symes/Redferns Music This is from the theguardian.com   ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Duke JORDAN "Flight to Jordan" (1960)

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Flight To Jordan is a minor-mode theme melodically patterned along the lines of the spiritual Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho . The 32-ba...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Lullaby of Birdland - Erroll Garner

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"When I heard Erroll Garner's recording of the tune, it quickly became my very favorite recording. I wonder why I didn't write ...

The Origins of George Shearing's "Lullaby Of Birdland" (original 1952 recording].

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The following is excerpted from George’s aptly-titled autobiography Lullaby of Birdland [New York: Continuum Books, 2004]. “In 1952, Morris ...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

George Shearing "Tenderly " My Ship 1974

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If George Shearing has one unique musical attribute, it is his piano sound. No one has produced a more beautiful or crystalline sonority fro...