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    Nicholas Payton – Drip

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    Nicholas Payton, more than just a big name in contemporary jazz, is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, producer, arranger, essayist, and social activist. Payton released his 26th recording as a…

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    Cortex – French Fusion Jazz

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    My son, now a freshman at college, asked me if I’d heard about a French jazz band called Cortex. I said I had not and he shared a link…

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    Aaron Parks: Progressive Jazz Piano

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    Aaron Parks has played piano on the last three Terence Blanchard recordings. I’m a big fan of those and the have made certain that the band was mentioned as…