I know this is supposed to be a Brubeck record in accordance with my series of 'Better Than 'Time Out' Brubeck Albums', but a recent trip to the local record store yielded some fantastic finds that I have been spinning on the turntable nonstop ever since. Two albums in particular have been in constant rotation [...]
Here at Raggy Waltz, we're celebrating the birthday of Dave Brubeck all month long by profiling different albums that I think are just as great or better than Brubeck's much-acclaimed 'Time Out' album. We know about that one, so let's hear about the other ones. Last week I talked about another time-themed album of Brubeck's. [...]
Born on this day 98 years ago in 1920, David Warren Brubeck has the rare honor of truly having revolutionized jazz while at the same time writing part of jazz's songbook. Although Brubeck died a day shy of his birthday in 2012, his legacy will live forever. The ways he revolutionized and altered jazz -and [...]
Collecting jazz records, and collecting records in general, is an interesting hobby. I don't know any serious jazz vinyl fiends in real life, but I've read about them and know that the jazz record-collecting community seems to have an unpublished set of rules and codes on what is and isn't kosher. As a younger dude [...]
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