About 9 months ago I posted some quick links to one of the greatest jazz labels of all time, ECM the European label that Manfred Eicher began many years ago and continues to feature some of the most innovative sounds on the planet. While not everything could even remotely be considered easy listening, I find my self after spending the last 35 years discovering jazz, coming back to this label You w
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Smedboy
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ECM Records Redux
California isn't all beaches and palm trees.
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Having given this new release by Dave Alvin a 3rd listen in the past few days, it finally hit me as to why his music matters so much to me. This new release, "Eleven Eleven" has themes of mortality throughout it as Dave reflects on the losses of Chris Gaffney, Amy Farris and Buddy Blue of the Beat Farmers. But the focus that reveals itself to me is Alvin's California.It is not the glitzy Beverly H
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Jazz Labels
Been digging around MOG looking for my favorite jazz labels, as aficionados know they can delve deeply into a genre by listening to a wide array of works by producers within a certain time frame this way. Have asked the folks at MOG when this search otion would be available and they said they were working on it. Until then, I have done some homework for fans of 2 labels to this point. I will try a
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