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A BLOG SUPREME'When The Bus For The Record Label Comes By': Behind Hot Tone Music
Facing no interest from record labels, jazz bassist Mimi Jones made two albums under her own imprint. Along the way, she signed two "amazing, bad-ass" musicians — who also happen to be black female instrumentalists.
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MUSIC NEWSDuke Ellington's Lost Opera, Forever A Work In Progress
When the prolific composer died in 1974, he left one of his most ambitious projects unfinished. Forty years later, admirers are still trying to fill in the blanks.
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JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATERJason Moran's 'Live: Time On The Quilts Of Gee's Bend' Suite On JazzSet
Composer and pianist Jason Moran ushers in his era as Artistic Advisor for Jazz at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with this performance, captured byJazzSet in honor of Black History Month.
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CODE SWITCHRemaking All That Jazz From Shanghai's Lost Era
Many Shanghai jazz standards of the 1930s and '40s were banned in China after the Chinese Communist Party took over. But they reemerged decades later through cover versions. Now, the songs are back again in a new cover album by a Chinese-American electronic artist and a jazz singer from Shanghai.
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