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There comes a time in a jazz fan’s life when he or she realizes that the rabbit hole goes far, far deeper than previously imagined. The new Spotify app from Blue Note Records begins to make sense of the data jumble in which fans happily abandon themselves.
This is a great app. You will get lost in it.
Hear 16 concerts from this past weekend’s Newport Jazz Festival, including sets from Miguel Zenón’s Rayuela Quartet, the Jack DeJohnette All-Stars, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Three Clarinets (featuring Anat Cohen), Jenny Scheinman and Bill Frisell, and many more.
Photos: Erik Jacobs for NPR
I web-produced this thing from the comfort of my desk (and a package of Twizzlers) in Washington, D.C. You’d do well to download the Darcy James Argue set — the Brooklyn Babylon suite reminded me of everything from “Where the Streets Have No Name” to Mingus to “All My Friends” to a brief minute of Sabbath-ian doom.
Few bands have as much Bane-like brawn and brutality as Ehnahre, and much like the heady Knightfall villain (oh, he was in some recent movie, too?), Ehnahre makes some hellishly heady metal. Old Earth, the band’s third album, is somehow even more damaged and evil, equal parts Obscura-era Gorguts and Peter Broztmann’s obliterating Machine Gun slowed to a death crawl.
Happy 83rd birthday, Cecil Taylor! Here’s a nice surprise: Watch All the Notes, a new 70-minute documentary on the brilliant jazz pianist and composer.
In under five hours at the Newport Jazz Festival, Eric Harland was the drummer for three different world-class bands. We asked him to play a rusty piece of scrap metal with trumpeter Avishai Cohen in an abandoned fort. Watch a duo improvisation from a rather unorthodox venue.
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Machinefabriek’s interpretations of jazz standards with clarinetist Gareth Davis are haunting, especially “My Funny Valentine,” which lurks in the alley behind the speakeasy.
