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December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Stevie Ray Vaughn
Austin, Texas
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"Voodoo Child"

NUFF SAID!
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Stevie Ray Vaughan ~Voodoo Child ~ Live From Austin T
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November 19, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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Late Night at #WestSideOFJazz
1978
Cosmic Messenger
Jean-Luc Ponty – Electric violins, acoustic 5-string violin,
Ralphe Armstrong – Electric and fretless bass
Allan Zavod – Synthesizers, Pianos
Casey Scheuerell – Drums
Joaquin Lievano/Peter Maunu-Guitars
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Cosmic Messenger
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July 30, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Next up in a review of the 2024 year in Jazz, my April WestSideOFJazz Extended Playlist. Some Mingus, Charles Lloyd, and more than a few surprises
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December 21, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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Late at the Northern Virginia WestSideOFJazz. For the next year I will be in these parts half of the week, then back to Htown.
From an album I have grown quiet fond of....The Rome base Agus Collective, who mission is to make music...anywhere it can, and drummer Jorge Rossy...
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Adios
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October 1, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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If you notice that my handle on here is now #WestSideOFJazz, please know nothing has changed. This is for folks existing "x" to find my posts...still @westsideofthings.bsky.social , and in the end, it's all about the music, everything else is just conversation ;)
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February 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The title of guitarist Joe Pass' 1973 masterpiece Virtuoso is a apt title which is evident when you listen to tunes like this Ray Noble jazz standard...
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Joe Pass - Cherokee (Official Visualizer)
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March 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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Continuing with #WestSideOFJazz 2025 Jazz Year in Review, here is Feb Extended Playlist with Mary Halvorson, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane,, Ellis Marsalis, Lionel Loueke, Charles Mingus, and that is before the new jazz I posted!
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Tribal Dance
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December 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Written for his first love who was the best friend of his older sister Marion, it is a hauntingly beautiful...
From the 1965 recording of all solo tunes, aptly entitled Solo Monk...
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Ruby, My Dear
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December 17, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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Coming up to the final days of 2024, and the final WestSideOFJazz Extended Playlists....moving on to October 2024 with names like Chet Baker, Joe Henderson, Grant Green, Gigi Gryce, The Headhunters sans Herbie, Ibrahim Maalouf, Idris Muhammad, and many new...
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October 2024 WestSideOFJazz Extended Playlist - YouTube
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December 30, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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A grown up Jill Scott offers up and soul balm for grown up women.... just heard this and I love her Neo-Jazz stylings...
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Pressha
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February 18, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Smoking homage to the late, great, Sonny Rollins
Emmet Cohen - Piano
Chris Potter - Tenor Saxophone
John Patitucci - Bass
Johnathan Blake - Drums
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Chris Potter Honors Sonny Rollins on "Airegin"
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June 28, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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Ramping things up on Late Night at #WestSideOFJazz

Cinematic & evocative, this 1981 #ECM release is a musical metaphor and journey for & through empty landscapes of America; endless stretches of interstate, small towns, isolated radio chatter, & wide-open skies.
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As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
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July 30, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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Pianist Benny Green with a simply beautiful Solo reimagination of the Ornette Coleman iconic standard from his aptly named 2023 album Solo...
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Lonely Women
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June 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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From the Grammy nominated Nonesuch Records debut by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire - Owl Song - and exquisitely balanced Trio of
Bill Frisell - Guitar
Herlin Riley - Drums
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Weighted Corners (feat. Bill Frisell & Herlin Riley)
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May 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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From the new release by London based keyboardist Greg Foat - The Rituals Of Infinity -

"The Ticking Clock"
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The Ticking Clock
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November 15, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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From the sterling 2005 #ECM release Shades of Jade by bassist Marc Johnson and an all star group consisting of:
Joe Lovano — tenor saxophone
John Scofield — guitar (
Eliane Elias — piano
Joey Baron — drums
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Shades Of Jade
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June 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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More Late Night from #WestSideOFJazz
One of my fav jazz piano-bass recordings...
Recorded LIVE at the Iridium Jazz Club in 1996, the shimmering 1998 Night And The City; an elegant exploration of the vibes of New York at dark
Kenny Barron - Piano
Charlie Haden - Bass
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Twilight Song (Live - Instrumental)
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July 29, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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From the soon to be released album by post bop jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt - Our Community Will Not Be Erased - with:
Orrin Evans, piano
Buster Williams, bass
Lenny White, drums
Lasse Corson, keyboards
A sneak listen,,,
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For the Culture
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February 25, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Up Next on Late Night at #WestSideOFJazz

Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, Germany in September 1975, Yellow Fields established Eberhard Weber's core quartet dynamic
Eberhard Weber – bass
Charlie Mariano – soprano sax
Rainer Brüninghaus – Keys
Jon Christensen – drums
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Sand-Glass
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July 30, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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What playing at the #WestSideOFJazz in the wee hours...
Vibraphonist Matthais Lupri from his scintillating 2002 Same Time Twice with :
Bass – Reuben Rogers
Acoustic , Electric Guitar – Kurt Rosenwinkel
Drums – Gregory Hutchinson
Tenor , Soprano Saxophone -Mark Turner
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Jade
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April 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Wonderful rewire of the Joe Henderson standard by vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson from his superb 1986 Color Schemes with:
Mulgrew Miller – piano
John Heard – bass
Billy Higgins – drums
Airto – percussion

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Bobby Hutcherson - Recorda Me
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January 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Taking a look at debut releases by jazz artists...
Tommy Flanagan recorded the 1956 Overseas in Stockholm, Sweden when touring with JJ Johnson.
Wilbur Little: Bass
Elvin Jones: Drums
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Tommy Flanagan - Verdandi (Take 2)
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April 27, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Sonny Stitt witched between alto and tenor on the 1959 album The Hard Swing, but went to the tenor on this rewire of the Bob Haggard/Sonny Burke standard with Amos Trice (piano), George Morrow (bass), Lenny McBrowne (drums).
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What's New?
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March 4, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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Magic!
84 years young pianist Ahmad Jamal and 94 years young multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, from the 2014 Live At The Olympia, a LIVE recording in France with one of jazz's most iconic tunes..
"Poinciana"
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Poinciana (Live)
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November 17, 2024 at 7:28 PM