An alternate version of this article appears in the Sep/Oct 2023 digital issue of Tape Op, under the title “Transferring Early Bebop 78 rpm Records”. Photo by William P. Gottlieb. Charlie Parker and Miles Davis perform at the Three Deuces jazz club in New York City, 1947. In the mid-forties,
Kind of Blue at 60
Image © Don Hunstein. “Columbia” is a trademark owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Photo Illustration by Dylan Utz. From left to right: Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, and John Coltrane at the second Kind of Blue session, April 22, 1959. There’s an inherent weight the word timeless brings
The French Connection: Jazz in Paris, 1957
In November 1957, Miles Davis returned to Paris to play the Club Saint-Germain. Since visiting seven years earlier, Davis had barely finished recording eight songs on tape, accredited to the ‘Miles Davis Nonet’; The nine-piece outfit proved unusual yet effectual in foreshadowing modern sounds in Jazz. With the exhilarating but
Django Reinhardt Unchained
Years before amplification, Django Reinhardt needed only his fingers to electrify the guitar. With high-dollar Shellac recordings for sale online, Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt has become a popular obscurity in the past few years. From the time of his upbringing as a child in Paris, Django lived a nomadic
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