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My local record store posted a ton of Miles that had just arrived on Instagram.
I think I was there exactly seven minutes later.
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Amoeba Music, San Fransisco
Didn’t actually pick up any tapes, but did fill my bag with jazz records: Weather Report’s self-titled debut, The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus, Tomorrow Is the Question! The New Music of Ornette Coleman! and Alice Coltrane’s Journey in Satchidananda.
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Round Midnight (1986)
I often want to live in films, but seldom ones this dour. But jazz clubs in the 50s, that’s my love language. Especially when it’s shot this beautifully, this dreamy. The faux-Paris streets at night are as out of this world as the soundtrack. Round Midnight unfolds so nonchalantly, there’s almost no exposition. Things just…
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Suntory
Got home from work this evening, put Coltrane’s Love Supreme on the hi-fi and poured a glass of Suntory. To quote Monk, “Straight, No Chaser.” Pretty sure this is how I looked about a half hour ago when I was pouring my first drink: Thinking I need to step up my game a bit though,…
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Current Header: Thelonious Monk
In 1960, Dixieland soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy joined the jazz legend’s band for a tour with John Coltrane. Young, wide-eyed and starstruck, he absorbed all he could, eventually writing down Monk’s words of wisdom. Applicable in jazz, so too applicable in life: Just because you’re not a drummer, doesn’t mean you don’t have to keep…
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Dezron Douglas and Brandee Younger – Force Majeure
Cutting a jazz record is usually done so either live or by “getting the band back together” in a little room and ripping it up. This album, named after the clause in contracts that allows events to be cancelled due to an “act of God,” speaks of that struggle. A compilation of weekly online performances…
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If you ever find yourself in Harlem on a Sunday afternoon…
…stop by Marjorie Eliot’s. 555 Edgecombe Avenue, Apartment 3-F.