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Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the ...
A selection of the best recorded examples of the otherwise mostly undocumented music heard in jazz clubs like Slugs’.
In the 1960s a number of jazz artists wrote and performed music for religious settings, sometimes with controversial results. Jazz was still seen as music at its most worldly, but for composers ...
Lou Reed might have been instrumental to the birth of punk, but his musical influences all stem from a variety of different places.
Throughout the 1960s, artists from across ... from everything from funk to folk, jazz, and R&B. The result was the creation of sounds and songs that were unlike anything the world had ever heard.
Episode 10: A Masterpiece by Midnight During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Critics divide the music into "schools" - Dixieland, swing, bebop, hard bop, modal, free, avant-garde. But most young ...