This blog covers the music I play on my Live365 station: Jazz Note NSU. It is devoted to hard bop and avant garde jazz. Here I confess my faith: the center of genius in modern music is jazz; the center of genius in jazz is hard bop, and especially the body of music produced between the early 50's and the mid-60's. And at the center of it all is Miles Davis. This blog is especially aimed at readers who want to build a serious jazz library.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Freedom Day
Happy Fourth of July. I have posted Max Roach's 'Speak, Brother, Speak,' my Live365 station, in honor of these United States. For entirely obvious reasons, there is a not a lot of explicitly patriotic music in jazz. However, the civil rights stuff is more than genuinely patriotic in its fashion. I think you will enjoy the long Roach piece.
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