The Jazz Room

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. Duke Ellington I live in London, I'm a girl, I shouldn't listen to Jazz, but I do. I'm fascinated.

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Gerry Mulligan.

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Miles Davis

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Thelonious Monk 1957 (photo by Lee Friedlander)

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Coltrane

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Elvin Jones

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Ella Fitzgerald

One Note Samba

live, June 22, 1969 

Ed Thigpen, drums; Frank de la Rosa, bass; and Tommy Flanagan, on piano.

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Thelonious Monk - Liza (All The Clouds’ll Roll Away) (1964)

To this humble listener’s ears, Monk’s standard interpretations are an ongoing education in music and mood, light and life.

Close your eyes; all the clouds’ll roll away.

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Billie Holiday during her last recording session on March 3, 1959.

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Leszek Mozdzer - Crazy Girl 

from ‘Komeda’

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The Dave Pike Quartet | “Bésame Mucho” | From Pike’s Peak, 1962.

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Personnel: Dave Pike, vibes; Bill Evans, piano; Herbie Lewis, bass; Walter Perkins, drums.

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Sunday afternoon soundtrack.

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Jazz on a Summer Day

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Aretha Franklin

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John Coltrane with Archie Shepp 1965

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Coltrane

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John v/s John. John Coltrane & John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie.

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Eve Arnold     Josephine Baker, Performing in New York City After a 25-year Absence     1950

Eve Arnold   1912-2012  Ave atque Vale