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New Alice Coltrane & Yusef Lateef From the Vault
Reviewing two essential new releases
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The Everly Brothers' Late-Sixties Reinvention
After the hits ended, Don and Phil Everly continued to make interesting music
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12

March 2024

Balancing on the Edge: Jackie McLean in 1963
Celebrating the altoist's visionary sessions One Step Beyond and Destination... Out!
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14
Enter the Association
Thoughts on the great pop group's first four albums
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February 2024

The Undisputed Truth and the Norman Whitfield Laboratory
Revisiting the Motown producer's work with a group of his own creation
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Robert C. Gilbert
10
On the Inconvenience of Hating the Eagles
Or how I realized I don't exactly hate the Eagles
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The Grant Green-Sonny Clark Connection
In a little over four months, the guitarist and pianist recorded together five times. All but one song sat in the Blue Note vault for a generation.
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Robert C. Gilbert
12

January 2024

The Mason Williams Substack Essay
On the iridescent irreverence of Mason Williams, the Smothers Brothers and the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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6
Elvis Presley's Kind of, Sort of World Tour
Last year's expanded reissue of Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite adds new perspective to the singer's final television special
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10
Oscar Brown Jr. Hits the Scene
The singer-songwriter's 1960 debut album continues to thrill
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7

December 2023

Ella Fitzgerald, Connie Francis & All the Christmas Carols
The power of the sounds of the season through two classic LPs
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4
Unwrapping Gregory Porter's Christmas Wish
A review of the singer's first full-length seasonal album
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