Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian: small discography, HUGE impact. The annotated ‘Explorations’ liner notes: the backstory, session drama, and why this trio still sounds like the future. It’s a perfect primer with Craft’s ‘Haunted Heart’ box on the way.
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Hank Mobley’s melodic clarity, structural coherence, and rhythmic phrasing reflect a mastery that rewards close attention. Here's a rundown of Mobley's three eras in honor of his 95th birthday this week: jazzandcoffee.substack.com/p/celebratin...

"Vinyl Me Please didn’t stop loving records. They just stopped shipping them."
The sad collapse of analog advocate, VMP. Prog rocking executives are lurking in major label elevators. And are all music CEO's really Bond villains?
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Cassie Kinoshi, Patricia Brennan, Joni Mitchell, Mal Waldron, Kenso, Dusko Goykovich, Zappa, Sonny Rollins, and the jazz supergroup of 2024 is WAY better than the prog-rock stuporgroup of 1982. 18 more favorites in detail in the Jazz and Coffee 2024 Year in Review! open.substack.com/pub/jazzandc...

Three snapshots in time capturing Miles Davis in a moment before a milestone. The roads to the first and second great quintets and four tales of two cities are thoroughly navigated and demystified in today's Jazz and Coffee Substack. #milesdavis
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Will the IRS allow me to claim my turntable as a dependent? How am I going to sneak all these records into the house? And who says vinyl addiction is a real thing? jazzandcoffee.substack.com/p/the-2025-a...