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Gary Bartz: From Ntu Troop to Jazz Is Dead (opens the original)
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Gary Bartz is one top-notch jazz musician whose profile has suffered because he dared to believe that jazz and other black music genres are not separate, but rather are pieces of a great whole. Bartz was part of Miles Davis’s anti-funk/anti-jazz band, but didn’t do much recording with Davis, though he can be heard on some live recordings such as Live-Evil and Isle of Wight. Interestingly, Bartz and his Ntu Troop (‘Ntu’ is the Bantu word for ‘Unity’) performed at the fledgling Montreux Jazz Festi
Zen & the Art of the Trio (opens the original)
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Note: I wrote this piece, to which I have made some minor revisions, in 2008 for ECM’s release of Setting Standards, a collection of the first three releases by Keith Jarrett’s Standards Trio. The release celebrated the trio’s 25th anniversary as a recording and performing entity. Back in 1983, three musicians assembled at New York’s Power Station studio to record some jazz piano trio sides. Specifically, the trio was planning on exploring the standard jazz repertoire composed by the likes of Ge
My Life In the Cutout Bins: The Rolling Stones: The Compilation Years (opens the original)
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For all of the classic records that The Rolling Stones have released, their early music is available via a hodge-podge of releases, especially in the early years, with U.S. & British albums that were quite different. Through the years the band has proven open to repackaging their various singles, songs, and deep tracks into compilations that highlight various eras of their career, with the result that you could always get a quick read on what the Stones were up to in any period by their compilat
Cassandra Wilson & the Legacy of Neo-Soul (opens the original)
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Jazz singer and songwriter Cassandra Wilson passed away September 1, 2026. She revitalized jazz vocal performance in the ‘90s, emphasizing the role of blues and storytelling as well as serving as inspiration for a new generation of black women vocalists in popular music, including Erika Badu and India.Aire. I wrote this piece in 2020 as a review of Wilson’s career up to that point and a starting point for those not familiar with her recorded work. At that time I was fairly new to Substack and ha
King Crimson: 1969--1974 (opens the original)
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King Crimson burst onto a musical scene that was replete with experimentalism and the addition of new levels of musicianship and blending of stylistic elements in rock and popular music. Just as the global political, cultural, and social climates were engaged in heady change, so was the musical landscape. Interestingly, jazz music also underwent a similar stage of experimentalism at this time, and crossover between jazz and rock was increasingly the norm.The behemoth of progressive (‘prog’) rock
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