Sunday, May 25, 2014

Recent Links :: 25 May 2014

Louis Armstrong: At The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, Ricky Riccardi shares a video of Louis Armstrong's February 1955 appearance on Horace Heidt's TV show, "The Swift Show Wagon."

Chick Corea: At The Guardian, John Fordham reviews the Chick Corea London concert.

Miles Davis: At All About Jazz, Nenad Georgievski reviews Scott Gutterman's book, Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork. (Purchase the book from Amazon.com.)

Earl Hines, Charles Mingus: At Take the "A" Train, Ehsan Khoshbakht discusses the session on which Charles Mingus played with Earl Hines and provides a playlist of the music.

Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins: At JazzWax, Marc Myers discusses the October 1954 break-out in Sonny Rollins's career and the role that Thelonious Monk played.

Sonny Rollins: Bill Beuttler interviews Sonny Rollins for Esquire.

Sun Ra: On May 22, his birthday, Sun Ra was the Jazz Musician of the Day at All About Jazz.

Sun Ra: At The New Yorker, Richard Brody discusses the 100th birthday of Sun Ra and lists his six favorite Sun Ra albums among the 21 being released by iTunes.

Sun Ra: At The Paris Review, Albert Mobilio writes about "the alchemy" of Sun Ra.

Robert
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