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  • By Any Means brings chemistry and history to the Newport jazz festival

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    Charles Gayle via last.fm The Boston Globe reviews the supergroup By Any Means Necessary. The trio of alto saxophonist Charles Gayle, bassist William Parker, and drummer Rashied Ali play with a potency and urgency that can make your hairs stand on end. They also just happened to have made one of the greatest albums in…

  • RIP Ian Carr

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    Ian Carr has passed on. At the age of seventeen Carr started to teach himself trumpet. After university he joined his brother in the Newcastle band, the EmCee Five from 1960 to 1962, before moving to London, where he became co-leader with Don Rendell of the Rendell–Carr quintet (1963–1969). In its six years, the group…