Joe Bebco

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Martial Solal

Martial Solal died on December 12th; he was 97. The Algeria-born French pianist had been active in Europe since the 1950s. He performed with Django

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Marvin “Doc” Holladay

Marvin “Doc” Holladay died on November 25th, 2024. He was 95 years old. He was a baritone saxophonist and ethnomusicologist. After working as a freelance

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Barbara Dane

Singer, songwriter, and activist Barbara Dane has died at age 97. In a career spanning 80 years she played folk, blues, world music, and, of

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Hannah Gill’s Spooky Jazz

Halloween jazz is hard to find. That’s probably because the explosion of popular Christmas material coincided with jazz ubiquity in the first half of the

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Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (or Lemott) around September 20, 1890 (he gave his birth year as 1884 on his WWI draft

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