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Buck O’Neil: Sweet times, sweet sounds at 18th and Vine
Sweet times, sweet sounds at 18th and Vine An Interview With Buck O’Neil By Joel Francis (Note: This 1998 interview was published in 2001 by The Independence Examiner newspaper.) Q: I’d like to talk...
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KC Recalls: The Coon-Sanders Night Hawk Orchestra
(Above: Joseph Sanders, left, and Carleton Coon.) By Joel Francis The music Carleton Coon and Joseph Sanders made for a dozen years together helped put Kansas City jazz on the map. Their Nighthawk...
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15 jazz greats to emerge in the last 20 years (part one)
(Above: Brad Mehldau performs an arrangement based on Radiohead’s “Exit Music (For A Film).” By Joel Francis Continuing The Daily Record’s look at the state of jazz today, here is the first of three...
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Remembering Gennett Records
(Above: A rare Gennett Records 78 featuring Edna Hicks singing “Satisfied Blues.”) By Joel Francis The Daily Record From the highway, Richmond, Ind. looks like any other blip on the highway between...
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Review –“How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll”
(Above: Don’t read “How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll” expecting author Elijah Wald to bash the Fab Four.) By Joel Francis The Daily Record Elijah Wald’s provocatively titled book slipped into...
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Clark Terry’s Last Stand
(Above: A somewhat recent performance of Clark Terry’s signature song, “Mumbles.”) By Joel Francis The Daily Record Perhaps only baseball reveres its heroes of the past as much as jazz. Each year, Stan...
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Remembering Alaadeen
(Above: Ahmad Alaadeen plays for Charlie Parker at a 2008 graveside memorial service.) By Joel Francis The Daily Record I grew up in a musical household where classical was the genre of choice....
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Social Distancing Spins, Day 2
By Joel Francis Welcome to another installment of spelunking in my record collection while the world … well, who knows what’s happening out there. Let’s just stick to the music. A.K. Salim –...
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Social Distancing Spins – Day 13
By Joel Francis I hope everyone is staying inside and remaining healthy while we traipse through my album collection. Chico Hamilton – The Further Adventures of El Chico (1966) Chico Hamilton was a...
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A Gennett Records photo gallery
By Joel FrancisThe Daily Record I visited the historic Gennett Records recording studio and the Gennett Walk of Fame in Richmond, Ind. on March 2, 2010. Here are my photos from the trip. (Don’t miss...
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