First heard fourty years ago on late night FM radio. Captivated by the opening piano notes. Amazed both then and now that it's all improvisation. Exploring ideas. A different direction from what I knew as Jazz. In fact, my proper introduction to Jazz and the sounds of ECM Records, their motto being: "The Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence."
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
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Saturday Vinyl Finds
It would be kinda funny, if it wasn't sad in my eyes but for the records that I'm interested in, the used bookstore is turning out t...
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Duke Ellington - The Ellington Suites. An antique shop find on vinyl. Jazz pieces recorded in 1959 and the early 1970's. Three separate ...
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New vinyl titled, 'Terrain' from Portico Quartet. Discovered this group about a year ago while searching for new directions in jazz....
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A compilation from 2001 and Oxford American magazine. I think they would put out an annual collection of Southern music. I found two or thr...

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