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‘Trane

by Rachel Cantrell on August 24, 2009

So now that we’ve talked about Miles Davis and Red Garland, let’s move on to the next member of the Miles Davis Quintet: John Coltrane. Like Miles Davis, one of Coltrane’s biggest influences was Charlie Parker (he says the first time he heard him play “hit [him] right between the eyes”). Coltrane’s career pretty much [...]

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Monk!

by Rachel Cantrell on July 15, 2009

If I were stranded on a desert island and I could only take one jazz pianist with me, it’d be Thelonious Monk. Why? It’s all in his sound. When you hear him on the radio, you know it’s him. Unlike Leonard Bernstein or Emanuel Ax, Monk had unusually small hands for a pianist (a problem [...]

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