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In Ten Tracks: Talking Heads
In Ten Tracks is not a best of or greatest hits or even necessarily a list of favorites. They're songs by an artist that stuck with me for various…
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Sketches: Jelly Roll Morton
"You punks can't play this"
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ABBA/Voulez-Vous
On their sixth record, ABBA graduates to a more adult sound
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Charles Mingus/Let My Children Hear Music
The album Mingus called his best
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Matthew Shipp/Equilibrium & Antipop Consortium Vs. Matthew Shipp
Two from the Blue Series
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Tell It To Your Heart
An excerpt from a book proposal on Lou Reed's 'New York' album
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Machito/Mambo Mucho Mambo & Muddy Waters/Real Folk Blues & More Real Folk Blues
Machito & His Afro-Cuban Orchestra
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In Ten Tracks: Joni Mitchell
In Ten Tracks is not a best of or greatest hits or even necessarily a list of favorites. They're songs by an artist that stuck with me for various…
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Charles Lloyd/Lift Every Voice
Healing music for troubled times
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David Lynn Thomas, 1953-2025
This one is really hard
Published on Carl Wilson, 'Crritic!' • 
The Making of Miles Davis' Tutu
The long road to making Miles Davis' album Tutu, his first recording for the Warner Brothers label, influenced by Prince and Marcus Miller.
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Five Corners Quintet/Timo Lassy
Helsinki's hottest jazz exports
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Clem Burke: Eat to the Beat
He was the coolest drummer in the coolest NYC punk/pop band
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The Secrets of São Paulo
Suba, Sao Paulo Confessions, Bebel Gilberto, Tanto Tempo
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New Directions In Music
New Directions In Music
If music is your best friend, always there for you, in the best times and the worst times, if you turn on some music to start your day, and if you brake for rainbows, this is the place where I explore and celebrate music and the people who create it.
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