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Jazz Album Review: “Luis Russell — At the Swing Cats Ball”

March 21, 2023
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This collector is happy to have Luis Russell: At the Swing Cats Ball with all its faults.

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Book Review: “Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong” — The King of All Kings

September 30, 2020
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He may be extreme as a polemicist, but Ricky Riccardi shines when he sticks to jazz’s history. 

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Book Review: “Creating the Jazz Solo” — An Iconoclastic View

March 22, 2019
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Rarely does a book leave me questioning the ways in which I understood, or thought I understood, the construction of some of the most formative solos in jazz history.

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