Three Jazz Concerts You Should Definitely Check Out: The Jazz625 Story
Getting in the right mood for the Turin Jazz Festival, I want to share with you some amazing concerts I have found on YouTube. Anyway, If it happens to be [...]
DJ Nuts Live Session!
Classy mix from DJ Nuts. It’s a very smooth selection of Jazz, Breaks and Brazilian music that gives you a fabulous overview of different artists and creative talents from all [...]
Interstellar Overdrive – A four tracks selection!
Here we go with another deep selection. This time I want to walk you through a space journey, a journey into the unusual and experimental side of sound. What you [...]
Gilles Peterson’s First Legal Broadcast
As you guys probably know, we are great followers of Gilles Peterson here at M&J. He gave us so much inspiration through the years. That is why, when we discovered [...]
Let’s Get Lost – Bruce Weber
Ok, I am probably late on this, but last night I saw for the very first time this distressing documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. It’s available [...]
A Mix To Extend Your Consciousness From Bending Corners
Hi everybody, maybe we’re getting old, but lately we’re stuck on Jazz music here at M&J. Remember the 9-hours monstermix we posted a while ago? That was something special: the [...]
Jammin the Blues by Gjon Mili
Jammin the blues is definitely another great old Jazz footage. I really enjoy watching this kind of rare stuff on Youtube. If you have my same feeling, don’t you dare [...]
Jazz Excursions
In the last year, I have been digging a lot of Jazz podcasts. Mostly of them are simply amazing and they are the perfect way to discover new Jazz artists [...]
Panoramic Selection by Marty (March 2011)
With this post I just want to give you a panoramic view of what I am listening to in this March 2011. I would like to try to do this [...]
Abbey Lincoln – Live at Keystone Korner (San Francisco 1979)
I have found this great and pretty rare recording of Abbey Lincoln and I am here to share it with you guys. It’s a very intense live session, her voice [...]
Sun Ra – Space Is The Place (1974)
I was having fish n chips with my dad this week. He had cod, I had plaice. He said: good cod! I said, space is the plaice! Sun Ra My [...]
Billy Taylor – R.I.P.
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Jazz Is For The Kids
This winter I have been mostly listening to Jazz music. Am I getting old? Nah, I am still very energetic and you can find me in my living room trying [...]
3 Sophisticaded and Uncompromising Mixes: Gilles Peterson, Superfly Mag and Shackleton
Still busy here at M&J, workin on the new site and preparing some big post coming soon. But in the meantime we cannot leave you without something to listen as [...]
The Cry of Jazz
Love it or hate it, I have found this old short movie very significant. Filmmaker and composer Edward O. Bland’s polemical essay on the politics of music and race: a [...]
Of Live and Love and Coltrane
Picture taken from Jazz In Photo Damn, I have spent the whole week end in bed down with the flu. I could not even take part in the big night [...]
Jazzy Quotes!
I am really into short and sharp sentences or phrases. Quotes can be in general humorous, introspective, smart, hilarious, inspirational etc…but when the quote comes from a musician, I definitely [...]
25 Jazzy Tunes For Your Summer
Here we are with another chapter of our world famous “25 tunes” music selections. This time we are focused on classic Jazz and Soul sounds from the past. I picked [...]
Lester Bowie Meets Fela Kuti
I have found this interview really interesting. Lester Bowie from The Art Ensamble of Chicago talks about the time he has spent in Lagos where he get very close to [...]
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid: Another Deadly Collaboration!
Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and Steve Reid (R.I.P.) show how the new and the old can pefectly mix togheter! Watch on YouTube And of course Gilles Peterson is on this: [...]
Gilles Peterson – The Deep End Mix
A post for the Jazz lovers. You don’t like Jazz music? You think it’s boring? Maybe all you need is someone to present you the right tunes, the ones you [...]
Teo’s Masterpieces @ BendingCorners
BendingCorners is a top notch site. They are specialized in Jazz, any type and any form of Jazz, as themselves state on their page: BendingCorners explores the grooves of: acid [...]
The Har-You Percussion Group: Sounds Of The Ghetto Youth from the 60′s
Good music is always surprising. Turns out this incredible Latin-Jazz album from 1965, a milestone classic for DJs and collectors worldwide, was done by 16 to 19 year old students. [...]
