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How About Some Jazz!

Calculated Dissonance: Avant-Garde Jazz in the 1960s-1970s (Part One) Calculated Dissonance: Avant-Garde Jazz in the 1960s-1970s (PartTwo) Calculated Dissonance: Avant-Garde Jazz in the 1960s-1970s (Part Three) Impulse’s "The New Thing" Series – The Legacy of John Coltrane. 32 Jazz: Yusef Lateef, Roland Kirk, Mose Allison, David "Fathead" Newman and Eddie Harris
The Art of the Jazz Ballad Blue Note's Blue Breakbeats The Blue Note Years: 1939-1999 Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder Re-Masters Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder Re-Masters Part II
 

Pacific Jazz Records And The West Coast Sound

Miles Davis' Jazz Fusion The Fusion is Brewing Once Again Live at the Maybeck Recital Hall Blue Note's Connoisseur Series
Rhino/Atlantic 50th Anniversary Jazz Deluxe Editions

Fantasy’s Jazz-Blues: Bobby Timmons, Red Garland and Hampton Hawes

An Interview with Jamie Masefield of the Jazz Mandolin Project

An Interview with Michael Chorney of Viperhouse

An Interview with Herbie Mann
An Interview with Steve Wilson An Interview with Pat Martino Les McCann Positive Vibes: Roy Ayers An Interview with Roy Haynes
An Interview with Karl Denson, Greyboy All-Stars An Interview with Bill Carbone, Miracle Orchestra An Interview with Rich Vogel, Galactic An Interview with James Taylor, James Taylor Quartet

An Interview with Billy Cobham

Cosmic Ascensions: Ascensions of Boston/Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe One Funky Weekend in Nawlins: The 1998 New Orleans Jazz Fest An Interview with Joe Chambers The Diverse Vibes of Gary Burton Four by Mingus
An Interview with Mose Allison The 1960s Output of Coltrane, Davis and Hancock. Book Review: Grant Green – Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar The 1999 Boston Globe Jazz and Blues Festival Fun in the Sun: The West Coast Jazz Box Set
The 100 Year Reign of the Duke Quick Spotlight: The Separate But Equal sounds of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Yusef Lateef Hard Bop During Hard Times: More From Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder Series Quick CD Review: The Mahavishnu Orchestra/The Lost Trident Sessions An Interview with T. Lavitz of  Jazz is Dead
A Slew of Jazz from Koch International Special Book Review: Howard Mandel's Future Jazz The Evolution of a Pianist: An Interview with John Lewis Vocalize Jazz!: New Jazz Vocal Releases Generations of Jazz - Sun Ra Arkestra under MarshallAllen/Barbary Coast Jazz Bar, Hopkins Center Dartmouth, New Hampshire - Kurt Rosenwinkel/Mark Turner, Regatta Bar, Cambridge, MA
The Prestige in Jazz: Prestige Records 50th Anniversary An Interview with David "Fathead" Newman An Interview with Alan Evans of   Soulive The Men Who Would Be Kings: Miles Davis with John Coltrane/The Complete Columbia Recordings Jazz Mandolin Project's Xenoblast
New Orleans Jazz Festival Tease: Los Hombres Calientes, George Porter, Nicholas Payton and Steve Masakowski An Interview with guitarist Melvin Sparks New Orleans Jazz Festival Tease Part Two: Galactic and Jason Marsalis Karl Denson's Tiny Universe An Interview with Steve Bernstein, Sex Mob
Givin' Away the Store: Pat Martino, Woody Shaw and Sonny Stitt A Gamut of Jazz Guitar: Grant Green, Mark Elf and  Joe Morris New Orleans 2000 – A Hazy Recap An Interview with pianist Matthew Shipp Medeski, Martin & Wood’s Tonic: Stripped Down and Electric Funky Free
Interview w/ Matt Darriau,The Paradox Trio The Middle Eastern Flavors of NYC:Brad Shepik, Triduga, Rhapsodalia He Puts the Fuze in Fusion: An Interview with Dave "Fuze" Fiuczynski An Interview with jazz Drummer Ben Perowsky Festival International De Jazz De Montreal
Better Living Through Coltrane: Coltrane Jazz, The Avant Garde, Impressions, New Thing at Newport, Kulu Se Mama, Ascension, Interstellar Space Industrial Hancock: Future Shock, Perfect Machine & Sound System Special CD Review: The 1970s and Pianist Keith Jarrett Expectations  and Fort Yawuh Legends Before Their Time: A Zappa/Sun Ra Comparison Better Living Through Coltrane:Coltrane Jazz, The Avant Garde, Impressions, New Thing at Newport, Kulu Se Mama, Ascension and Interstellar Space
The Vermont Review: The Butler Did It: An Interview with pianist Henry Butler The Not So The Invisible Hand of Greg Osby New Orleans Big Bass Man: An Interview with Jim Singelton of the Astral Project Guitarismo!-Charlie Hunter, Kipori Woods, Son Seals, Dave "Honeyboy" Edwards, T-Bone Walker Jazz Sounds from the Pacific Northwest: An Interview with Arne Livingston of the Living Daylights
Experimentation is a New York Thing: The Knit Classics-Part I Experimentation is a New York Thing: The Knit Classics-Part II Experimentation is a New York Thing: The Knit Classics-Part III Two from AUM Fidelity - Joe Morris & Mat Maneri's Soul Search and William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra's Mayor of Punkville An Interview with Michael Wolff
A 6/4 Getaway with  Rockin’ Teenage Combo Hard Boppin' Jazz Messages: The Music of Art Blakey and Friends Ornette Coleman Before the Electricity: The Early 1970s Sco Better Blues: An Interview with John Scofield The Slip Does It Again: An Interview with Guitarist/keyboardist Brad Barr
The Seen From Above the Hidden Gardens: An Interview with Donny McCaslin Those Jazz Hot Sounds: Jazz in the 1920s (Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, George Lewis, Original Dixieland Jazz Band) Atavistic's Unheard Music Series- European Free Jazz (Leo Cuypers, Nachtluft and Han Bennink) The Jazz Saxophones of 1201 Music-are Albert Ayler’s Witches and Devils, Ben Webster’s Stormy Weather and Dexter Gordon’s Body and Soul Jazz and the French Violinist: Stephane Grappelli and Didier Lockwood
No Small Elf: Mark Elf – Live at Smalls Organ Donors: Freddie Roach & Big John Patton The French Connection - An Interview with Pianist Jacques Chanier 21st Century Gong: An Interview with Theo Travis of Gong