# Jazz Noted The liner notes they didn't want you to read. Exploring the unsung legends and off-the-record history of jazz. Page: Feed: --- ## [Trio Logic 17/52: Rollins Fired the Band](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/trio-logic-1752-rollins-fired-the) _2026-08-19 · Michael Daniels_ The First Night at the Vanguard, a radical personnel search, and the birth of a jazz institution. ## [Behind the Cheeks 1/6: Nobody Recorded Dizzy's First Band](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/behind-the-cheeks-16-nobody-recorded) _2026-08-15 · Michael Daniels_ 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](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/trio-logic-1652-no-piano-no-rehearsal) _2026-08-12 · Michael Daniels_ The story behind the absurd Mojave Desert cover and the four-hour session that backed up the bravado. ## [The Myth of the Liberated Bass](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-liberated-bass) _2026-08-08 · Michael Daniels_ 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](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/trio-logic-1552-we-will-meet-again) _2026-08-05 · Michael Daniels_ His brother’s suicide, a dedication, and the final trio Evans said came closest to the first. ## [Who Really Owns the History of Jazz?](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/who-really-owns-the-history-of-jazz) _2026-08-01 · Michael Daniels_ How marriage, bankruptcy, tax bills, and fires shaped the legacy of modern recorded jazz. ## [Trio Logic 14/52: What Came After Vanguard](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/trio-logic-1452-what-came-after-vanguard) _2026-07-29 · Michael Daniels_ Bill Evans, Chuck Israels, and the quiet courage of not trying to repeat history. ## [How Denmark Stole American Jazz](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/how-denmark-stole-american-jazz) _2026-07-25 · Michael Daniels_ 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](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/trio-logic-1352-background-music) _2026-07-22 · Michael Daniels_ The most studied afternoon in jazz trio history was, to the room that heard it, just a pleasant Sunday. ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Hqfdc0Txvs1x) _2026-07-22 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Who Owned Bebop?](https://jazznoted.substack.com/p/who-owned-bebop) _2026-07-18 · Michael Daniels_ The forgotten publishing deals that determined who received credit, royalties, and a place in jazz history.