F* Yeah! Jazz
thesweetestpsychopath:

uncertaintimes:

Lester Young
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kathleenlovesmusic:

Bill Evans > Cool Eddie
Composed by Bill Evans

Bill Evans (he played with Miles, but not that Bill Evans) is seven years younger than me, so it makes sense that he’d want to mash up funk and jazz. And it might not quite have that ‘strangeness’ Mike defined, but it would be pretty hard to imagine any one even a generation older (maybe Herbie) remixing the stuff this way.

Postmodern Soul Jazz Week #4

lpcoverlover:
I LIKE IKE
dtybywl:(via commonchant)
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kathleenlovesmusic:

Louis Prima w/Sam Butera > Be Mine (LIttle Baby)
Composed by Louis PrimaSam Butera

There was a decade where the difference between pop, jazz, R&B, blues, white and black all mixed together and it took an anthropologist to figure out the diff.

Jump Week #1
Legends of Pop #8
Legends of the Saxophone #16