Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Recent Links :: 7 January 2015

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington: At JazzWax, Marc Myers shares videos of Duke Ellington playing baseball as well as Louis Armstrong singing with Bing Crosby.

Ornette Coleman: ClassicaLite reviews Ornette Coleman's new album, New Vocabulary. (Purchase the album from System Dialing Records.)

John Coltrane: New Jazz United shares a video of the John Coltrane Quartet performing "What's New?" (The song is available on the album, Ballads, which can be purchased from Amazon.com.)

Miles Davis: St. Louis Jazz Notes looks at E.S.P., the first Miles Davis album to feature his "second great quintet." (Purchase the album from Amazon.com.)

John McLaughlin: On January 4, his birthday, John McLaughlin was the Jazz Musician of the Day at All About Jazz.

Bud Powell: Marc Myers discusses the development of Bud Powell's bop style at JazzWax.

Joe Sample, Horace Silver: At JJA News, Ken Franckling lists the jazz artists who passed away in 2014, including Joe Sample and Horace Silver.

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