Tag: Mosaic Records

• Top 40 Over 40.30: Duke Ellington, 1962

  

  One of the things I admire about the jazz tradition is the fluidity with which musicians move from being leaders to sidemen. Take an album like Conference of Birds by Dave Holland. I mostly knew Dave as a sideman for Anthony Braxton and Miles Davis. But then Braxton turns around and plays sideman for Holland’s…

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  January 4, 2021

  Folk Implosion, Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

  A Sailboat in the Moonlight, Anthony Braxton, Barney Bigard, Blackstreet, Cabride, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Conference of the Birds, Cootie Williams, Dave Holland, Didgeridoo, Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Echoes of Harlem, Excursion on a Wobbly Rail, Fats Waller, Fleurette Africaine, Folk Implosion, In a Sentimental Mood, Jazz, John Coltrane, Johnny Hodges, Looking Ahead!, Max Roach, Mosaic Records, My Little Brown Book, Never No Lament: The Blanton Webster Band, No Diggity, Piano, Rex Stewart, Stompy Jones, The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, The Duke's Men: Small Groups Volume 1, The Money Jungle, Top 40 Over 40, Very Special, Wig Wise, You'll Never Get to Heaven if you Break My Heart