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Aretha Franklin’s voice has recorded 20 #1 singles on the Billboard R&B charts, earned 20 Grammys and has melted the soul of this twenty-something girl since birth. I can still hear that old, scratchy 45 of “Think” spinning it’s guts out on my parents’ turntable [...]

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A beautiful vintage find. The haunting faces in the side of this piece stare right back at you.

Louis Armstrong’s music has the magical power to send me on an emotional rollercoaster. Lucky for us, a new edition of those tracks from the 1935-46 Decca recordings, mostly of his work with the big bands, has just been released by Mosaic.
Listen or read a review of the release over at NPR.
Jazz critic Kevin [...]