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    • Eight Jazz Revolutionaries
    • Betty-Carter The Queen of Scat
    • The Art of the Jazz Ballad
    • Old And New Dreams
    • The Art of the Jazz Piano Trio Today
    • From jazz warriors to tomorrow’s warriors
    • Maestros of the jazz guitar
    • Jazz mentors
    • Top sounds and gigs in 2024 and farewell to Martial Solal and Benny Golson
    • Highlights from the EFG London Jazz Festival 2024
    • Transitioning to (and from) free jazz
    • Inferno 67 – Guy Barker and Co at Ronnie Scott’s
    • A view from the bandstand
    • Christian McBride and Summer Sounds
    • Blue Note – The Sound of Jazz
    • Jazz, politics and civil rights
    • Stan Tracey
    • Downbeat’s Top 90
    • Trumpet Prodigies
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    • Oscar Peterson
    • Duke Ellington’s Orchestra at 100
    • Live at the Village Vanguard
    • Jazz up your Christmas
    • My Vinyl Vaults
    • Alice and John Coltrane on BBC Radio 3
    • The Jazz Ballad
    • Introducing ‘Oh! Jazz’
    • Women in Jazz
    • FOCUS from Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter to Nubya Garcia and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra
    • The Ezra Collective and summer listening highlights
    • Jazz Dynasties – Fathers and sons and one mother and daughter
    • The Amazing Sound World of Gil Evans
    • Charles Lloyd – Jazz is the music of freedom and wonder
    • The Jazz Harp
    • Blue Trane – John Coltrane on the cusp of greatness
    • Jazz Around The World: International Jazz Day 30 April 2023
    • A new generation of jazz elders
    • Jazz Terminology
    • I was there – Great nights at Ronnie Scott’s
    • 1959 – The miraculous year for recorded jazz
    • Immediately recognisable – The primary of sound in Jazz
    • The Art of Improvisation – Volume 2
    • New Year Playlist 2022
    • Yule Jazz 2022
    • The Art of Improvisation – Volume 1
    • Great nights at Ronnie Scott’s
    • Beneath the Bassline
    • Pharoah Sanders and Ramsey Lewis
    • Songs for my grandchildren
    • Jazz in real time
    • Ethan Iverson at the Vortex
    • Sounds of Summer 2022
    • Jazz Genres
    • The Real McCoy
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    • Mike Westbrook – On Duke’s Birthday
    • Flawed Personalities – Incomparable Sounds
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    • Jackie McLean – Bebop Royalty
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    • Coming back to Keith Jarrett
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Beeping not Bopping

by Andy Merriman | Nov 1, 2022

‘Jazz is musical humour.’ Bix Beiderbecke Following Danny’s piece about Ronnie Scott I was inspired to write something about jazz and humour. One of my favourite stories features the late drummer Laurie Morgan, who bore an uncanny resemblance to Harpo Marx. He...

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