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Toshiko Akiyoshi needs little introduction to any fan of Jazz. Her band was one of the longest-standing house bands at the famous, and now defunct, Birdland in New York. This number is one of many reasons why. It has all the trademarks, including the common feature of any Akiyoshi arrangement: she has five saxophones, and she'll be damned if she has any two of them playing the same note at the ...
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This one isn't about the music, which is not to say that the music itself is bad or uninteresting. Rather, it's about moments of interaction between the performer and the audience that can't be captured in the studio. I remember an evening when I was in college when a band was performing Gloria, and we in the audience became their impromptu backup singers. I'll never forget the looks of incredu...
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I'm going to start off by apologizing for not uploading a sample cut, but the shortest cut I could upload already surpasses the 15 MB Mog limit for mp3 uploads by 5 MB. I suppose I could tag one of these songs off of some album, but that would entirely defeat the point of this post.The late 60's incarnation of the Miles Davis Quintet, featuring Chick Corea on keyboards, Jack DeJohnette on drums...
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