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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On December 12, 2025, the world lost a truly innovative voice. When any accomplished artist passes, there is a natural…
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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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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Over the last few years, tenor saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh has released recordings thst featured his dulcet tones with several jazz elders…
Folk music is often broadly defined as being a music “of the people.” But what does that really mean? Of…