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Thelonious Monk

The story of Thelonious Monk is a story of contradictions. A musical revolutionary who lived long enough to be considered old-fashioned. A man with a reputation for erratic behavior who was also a devoted husband and father. A piano player…

manwith7talents November 22, 2016 Musicians Read more

The Jazz Loft Project

The Jazz Loft Project is a story told in fragments by disembodied voices. It is a successful work of art made from the ruins of a failed one, a complete work made from an intentionally incomplete one. It is the…

manwith7talents November 10, 2016 Musicians Read more

Charlie Parker

I’m not here today to talk about Charlie “Bird” Parker as a musical revolutionary. I’m not interested in discussing his troubled life and early death. I don’t want to debate whether he’s the man who destroyed jazz or the man…

manwith7talents February 23, 2016 Musicians Read more

Curtis Mayfield

I’m not sure why more people don’t dig Curtis Mayfield. Even a lot of musicians I’ve met don’t know much about his work, or aren’t into it, at least at first. Some find it overproduced, in that 1970s way when…

manwith7talents January 26, 2016 Musicians Read more
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