Trio Logic 17/52: Rollins Fired the Band
The First Night at the Vanguard, a radical personnel search, and the birth of a jazz institution.
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The liner notes they didn't want you to read. Exploring the unsung legends and off-the-record history of jazz.
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Behind the Cheeks 1/6: Nobody Recorded Dizzy's First Band
In 1945 he took a full orchestra through the segregated South playing the newest music in America. Not one second of it survives.
Trio Logic 16/52: No Piano, No Rehearsal, No Problem
The story behind the absurd Mojave Desert cover and the four-hour session that backed up the bravado.
The Myth of the Liberated Bass
Bill Evans gets the credit, but the revolution started twenty-five years earlier—and mostly by accident.
Trio Logic 15/52: We Will Meet Again
His brother’s suicide, a dedication, and the final trio Evans said came closest to the first.
Who Really Owns the History of Jazz?
How marriage, bankruptcy, tax bills, and fires shaped the legacy of modern recorded jazz.
Trio Logic 14/52: What Came After Vanguard
Bill Evans, Chuck Israels, and the quiet courage of not trying to repeat history.
How Denmark Stole American Jazz
Inside the tiny club, state money, and cheap flights that quietly pulled America’s greatest musicians across the Atlantic.
Trio Logic 13/52: Background Music
The most studied afternoon in jazz trio history was, to the room that heard it, just a pleasant Sunday.
Who Owned Bebop?
The forgotten publishing deals that determined who received credit, royalties, and a place in jazz history.