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Barretto Power

By Armand Lewis In 1947, be-bop pioneer and bandleader Dizzy Gillespie hired the Cuban percussionist and composer Luciano Pozo González, better known as Chano Pozo. Among their first compositions together was the classic tune ...
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Art Blakey – Coolin’ At The Corner

By Armand Lewis Most jazz albums are documents of a group’s current performance rep-ertoire. The tunes played live in clubs or concerts are continuously crafted over time to some level of near perfection. Once satisfied, the ...
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Charlie Haden & Joe Henderson – Montreal Trio

By Armand Lewis The 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival held a series of tribute concerts to bassist Charlie Haden. Haden himself participated in these sets which featured jazz artists he had previously recorded with, including Gerri A...
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Chet Baker in New York

BY ARMAND LEWIS IN THE LATE 1950S, THERE were three major jazz record labels in New York. Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside all churned out records as fast as their musicians could rehearse and record new material. With the ma...
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Miles Davis and the First Quintet

BY ARMAND LEWIS ON THE EVENING OF July 17th, 1955, Columbia Records producer George Avakian realized that he had a problem. He had just witnessed Miles Davis’ stellar performance at the Newport Jazz Festival and knew that if...
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Sonny Sitt — Lone Wolf Alternate

BY ARMAND LEWIS IT’S WIDELY RECOGNIZED that in the 1940s, Charlie Parker revolutionized both jazz and popular music with his lighting fast, ultra-precise style of playing that came to be known as “Be-Bop.” Not as widely ...
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Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land

BY ARMAND LEWIS IN 1975, DUTCH JAZZ CONCERT promoter Wim Wigt decided it was time to start his own record label. Wigt had built up a strong business as a concert promoter and artist manager for a large number of well-known ja...
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The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon

BY ARMAND LEWIS FOR A MUSICIAN WHO passed away in 1990, Dexter Gordon has been extremely busy lately. 2018 saw the release of not only a new biography, but multiple LPs and CDs of previously unreleased material – a series of...
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Wynton Kelly Lost in Boston

BY ARMAND LEWIS In the 1950s and early ‘60s, Miles Davis had the band in modern jazz. If a musician played with Miles, it was practically automatic that record contracts would follow almost immediately. John Coltrane, Bill Ev...
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