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100 Essential Jazz Albums: A New Yorker Scribe Compiles A List
The Set List — ... McLean, “A Fickle Sonance” (Blue Note, 1961). Albert Ayler, “Spiritual Unity” (ESP, 1964). Betty Carter, “Betty Carter’s Finest Hour” (Verve, 2003; tracks recorded 1958-92). World Saxophone Quartet, “World Saxophone Quartet Plays Duke Ellington” (Nonesuch, 1986). Charlie Haden and Hank Jones, “Steal Away” (Polygram, 1995). Cassandra Wilson, “Traveling Miles” (Blue Note, 1999). The Bill Charlap Trio, “Live at the Village Vanguard” (Blue Note, 2007). The full list is here. ...

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Music and More — ... to him play a recording of “Okiedoke,” a tune that Parker recorded in 1949 with Machito and His Afro-Cuban Orchestra. Schaap, in his pontifical baritone, first provided routine detail on the session and Parker’s interest (via Dizzy Gillespie) in Latin jazz, and then, like a car hitting a patch of black ice, he veered off into a riff of many minutes’ duration on the pronunciation and meaning of the title—of “Okiedoke.”"Inspired by his profile of Schaap, Remnick goes on to list 100 Essential Jazz Albums: "These hundred titles are meant to provide a broad ...