Special Series

The Cellar Door Sessions at Fifty-Five: December 19, 1970

Saturday, December 19, 1970 For first-time listeners to The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (Columbia, 1970), the first four discs can…

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The Cellar Door Sessions at Fifty-Five: December 18, 1970

Friday, December 18, 1970 When The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (Columbia, 2005) recordings were made, none of the members of…

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The Cellar Door Sessions at Fifty-Five: December 17, 1970

Thursday, December 17, 1970 https://youtu.be/vvPgGwVNgJU?si=z1v0v57ieh_rhnLF --What I Say. With “What I Say,” Miles Davis and his band answered the bell…

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The Cellar Door Sessions at Fifty-Five: December 16, 1970

Before diving in, a note on inspiration. This project is the child of a small-scale obsession. Last fall, I moved…

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The Cellar Door Sessions at Fifty-Five: An Introduction

Fifty-five years ago this week, Miles Davis brought a new-ish band into Washington D.C.’s Cellar Door club for a four-night…

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Touching the Continuum: Sebastian Rios Previews New Jazz Underground at Newport

As nonsensical as it may seem in the abstract, sometimes ideological wars are a necessary step towards a renewed and…

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Flying to a New Land: Patrick Patterson and Steve Scipio Preview Cymande at the 2025 Newport Jazz Festival

Of the world's roughly eleven thousand bird species, there is something particularly special about the dove family. Dating back to…

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Past, Present, and Future: Day Two of the 2024 Newport Jazz Festival

With our review of the second day of the 2024 Newport Jazz Festival - read day one here - we…

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Enchanted: Marcus Gilmore on Honoring Roy Haynes at Newport and Journeying to the New

In making sense of the story of jazz, historians often craft a narrative that neatly divides into different generations and…

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