Listen/purchase: FOR JEMEEL - FIRE FROM THE ROAD by STEVE SWELL'S FIRE INTO MUSIC (STEVE SWELL, JEMEEL MOONDOC, WILLIAM PARKER, HAMID DRAKE)
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Swings & Roundabouts ~ Mark Lockett
Mark Lockett has released his seventh album Swings & Roundabouts, arguably his finest. The project had been in gestation for a while but like many projects, it was delayed by the pandemic. Still, once the travel restrictions were lifted he headed for New York, engaged some of New York’s finest Jazz musicians and set up the session in the Samurai Hotel Recording Studio, Queens—a studio versed in…
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C.V. Farrow drew this beautiful map of what he called "The Wondrous Isle of Manhattan" in 1926. You MUST enlarge it. It wasn't intended to be used for navigation, but rather as a pictorial representation of the island's highlights. Below are a few details that show you what the full-size map is really like. You should enlarge them, too!
Source: Gothamist
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Kae Carroll in the Ziegfeld Follies, c. 1925-1927
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Billie Holiday au Downbeat club - New York - Février 1947
Photo de William P. Gottlieb
©Library of Congress
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Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck (American, 1920 - 2012), New York City, 1954 - by Elliott Erwitt (1928 - 2023), French/American
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Charles Mingus - Bi Centenial, Lower Manhattan July 4, 1976, by Tom Marcello
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Al Hirschfeld Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli in New York, New York. June 19, 1977.
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Amy Winehouse in Downtown Manhattan, New York City, New York. 2003.
Photographed by Charles Moriarty.
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Kwame Brathwaite (photograph), The pianist Thelonious Monk performing at the Randalls Island Jazz Festival in 1959 [The «New York Times». © Kwame Brathwaite / Kwame Brathwaite Archive, Pasadena, CA / ARS, New York]
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The photos below were taken of one corner--Second Avenue and 59th Street--in 1925. Together they give a sense of what ordinary life was like for New Yorkers at that time.
And below is a detail of the second photo:
Source: NYC Municipal Archives Instagram
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Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra – Soft Lights Hot Music (1988)
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