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@WestSideOFJazz
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Jazz Content Curator with emphasis on where jazz has been, where it is now, and where it will go. Recognized ERP and EAM Consultant, Free Thinker, Avid Reader, Actor, Writer, Humanist!
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If you on that other site, I was @WestSideOFJazz , but I am telling you, I am LOVING it here....
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Without a doubt one of the most underrated pianists in Jazz History. He moved to Copenhagen so that he would not be "pigeonholed" into any jazz category, and his technical and emotive skills were incredible. From the 1980 Ruby My Dear with David Friesen-B & Clifford Jarvis-D
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Gentle Rain
YouTube video by Kenny Drew - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Pianist Kenny Drew goes to town on his Bebop reimagination of the Juan Tizol / Duke Ellington standard with the very unstandard rhythm section of Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Jo Jones putting in some work as well in the 1961 Blue For Nica
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Caravan
YouTube video by Kenny Drew - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Guitarist Tom Offendorff goes to work on this John Coltrane tune.
From his 2023 album Enchanted with drummer Ari Hoenig and bassist Conor Chaplin
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Satellite
YouTube video by Tom Ollendorff - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 6:05 AM
If you have not heard this opening track from the gorgeous duet 1996 LIVE recording at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City by pianist Kenny Barron and the late, great Charlie Haden, here you go...amazing chemistry and simpatico intuitiveness abounds throughout
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Twilight Song (Live - Instrumental)
YouTube video by Charlie Haden - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Pianist Steve Lodder conjures up a cornucopia of sounds colors, & textures on recently developed Rhodes Mk8 with his "plugged" Trio of Dudley Phillips-electric bass & Nic Frances-drums, & also delivers with his "unplugged" acoustic Trio on brilliant new album 2 Sorts Of 3
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Onto the Water
YouTube video by Steve Lodder - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Trondheim, Norway native son and pianist Sondre Moshagen from his stellar debut album Lighting with a cast of Euro Next Gen jazz artists including Kertu Aer – double bass, Steinar Heide Bø – drums. with; Ketija Ringa Karahona – flute
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Past
YouTube video by Sondre Moshagen - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 12:34 AM
From the outstanding Trio album by the late, great pianist Lyle Mays - Fictionary - with an outstanding cast of Marc Johnson - Bass and Jack DeJohnette - Drums. While perhaps best know for his Pat Metheny Group work, his solo albums stand on their own...
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Bill Evans
YouTube video by Lyle Mays - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Simply beautiful...
From the sublime 2004 #ECM release Promises Kept by pianist Steve Kuhn, bassist bassist David Finck and a fifteen-strong string ensemble conducted by Carlos Franzetti.
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Adagio
YouTube video by Steve Kuhn - Topic
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January 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
One of the most amazing and beautiful solo jazz piano reimaginations of this Horace Silver homage to jazz patroness and Patron Saint to BeBop artists; Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, in jazz history...

I did not stutter!

Ellis Marsalis
1968
Solo Piano In E
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Nica's Dream
YouTube video by Ellis Marsalis - Topic
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January 14, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Is my Library Autoplay list trying to say something? Hmm ;)
Grammy nominee, & Professor of Jazz Studies at USC’s Thornton School of Music, veteran pianist Alan Pasqua said of 2025 release New Hope,
"This is simply the music I wanted to make right now,"
Nuff Said!
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New Hope
YouTube video by Alan Pasqua - Topic
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January 14, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I recently read that Swedish musician Anders Haberg plays four different flutes, soprano sax, matusi headjoint &singing bowl on his gorgeous new album With Hope"Johannes Johannes Lundberg on bass, Joona Toivanen on keyboards and Helge Andreas Norbakken on percussion.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
From the 2012 Under The Radar #ECM gem by pianist Steve Kuhn - Wisteria with bassist Steve Swallow, whom Kuhn worked for with Art Farmer in the '60s, and drummer Joey Baron....the sublime opener...
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Chalet
YouTube video by Steve Kuhn - Topic
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January 13, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Simply Beautiful...
When I first heard pianist Kenny Drew's amazing SOLO piano reimagination of this Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart standard I knew the song, but it was almost like the first time I had heard the song...from the 1961 Blue for Nica
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My Funny Valentine
YouTube video by Kenny Drew - Topic
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January 13, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Was once voted one of the 200 jazz albums to have in your collection post World War II...the stupendous 1961 Whistle Stop by trumpeter Kenny Dorham with
Hank Mobley - tenor sax
Kenny Drew - piano
Paul Chambers - double bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums
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Sunset (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
YouTube video by Kenny Dorham - Topic
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January 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Never heard drummer Art Blakey & tenor John Coltrane perform together ?
Here you go...
From the 1957 Art Blakey Big Band, where there was one tune (written by Coltrane) with a quintet of Coltrane, Blakey, Donald Byrd-TRP, Walter Bishop Jr.-P, Wendell Marshall-B.
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Pristine (2012 - Remaster)
YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic
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January 13, 2026 at 1:02 AM
One of my favorite solo piano jazz albums, ironically, was offered up one of the best bass players in the history of jazz...
Charles Mingus from his brilliant 1963 aptly titled MINGUS PLAYS PIANO : Spontaneous compositions and Improvisation
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Myself When I Am Real
YouTube video by Charles Mingus - Topic
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January 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Dom Famularo, an unsung hero of jazz, was a world-renowned drummer, author, and educator often referred to as "Drumming's Global Ambassador." Drummer Max Buettner pays homage on new album Reconnect with a core of
Noah Rott-K
Shuji Watanabe-B
& collabs from US & South America
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January 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Happy Sunday...
Trumpeter Eddie Henderson from his 1989 Think On Me, with a sublime rewire of this Duke Ellington homage to Sunday...with
Bass – Wayne Dockery
Drums – Billy Hart
Piano – Kenny Barron
Trumpet – Eddie Henderson
Vibraphone– Joe Locke
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Come Sunday
YouTube video by Eddie Henderson - Topic
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January 11, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis is best known for his take on modern "gypsy jazz" which has its roots in the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. On his stellar 2010 Acoustic Journey he focused on standards such as Jobim's homage to "The Waters of March"
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Águas de Março
YouTube video by Tim Kliphuis - Topic
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January 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by @WestSideOFJazz
Morning music. Drinking coffee and doom scrolling. Just trying to make any of it make any sense. Old folks, indeed. ☕️

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January 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Parliament/Funkadelic's psychedelic jazz rock classic with guitarist Eddie Hazel offering one of the greatest electric guitar solos in history as far as I am concerned...from the 1978 album Maggot Brain...
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Funkadelic - Maggot Brain [HQ]
YouTube video by NickMystic
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January 11, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour from his self titled 1978 album & its Jazz Rock vibe..the opening track sets the tone with Rick Wills (bass) and Willie Wilson (drums), Gilmour's brother Mark Gilmour on rhythm guitar, Ian McLagan on keyboards
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Mihalis
YouTube video by David Gilmour - Topic
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January 11, 2026 at 6:59 AM
If you have not heard the eclectic modernism of Finnish saxophonist Jimi Tenor & guitarist Kalle Kalimam, here you go...a sublime merging of jazz, electronica, & avant that is approachable! From the 2023 Sounds of Salo with drummer Joonas Riippa
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Kanava
YouTube video by Kalle Kalima - Topic
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January 11, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Russian born pianist Eugene Maslov came to the US in 1989 and imo is one of the most underrated jazz pianists of the era with his melodic approach to post bop. 2002 - The Fuse Is Lit
Bass – Boris Kozlov
Drums – Joe LaBarbera, Vinnie Colaiuta
Flute – Hubert Laws
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Sometime, Somewhere, Somehow...
YouTube video by Eugene Maslov - Topic
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January 10, 2026 at 9:53 PM