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Jazz Jams: Four Long Selections

An experiment in long-form jazz improvisation: All Blues, Bitches Brew, a Keith Jarrett trio performance and Mingus's Parkeriana, plus the opening theme.

Show: Bohemian After Dark: Jazz Jamz
Programme: Bohemian After Dark
Date: 2 November 2012

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Cannonball Alderley · Bohemia After Dark

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Jazz jams: four long selections

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Bohemia After Dark · Cannonball Alderley

Why it was chosen the track is "named after a cafe Bohemia where a lot of jazz used to happen in the city of New York"
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All Blues · Chick Corea And Pat Metheny

Why it was chosen It is a jazz standard that seems to be inviting the most improvisational extravaganzas
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Bitches Brew · Miles Davis

Why it was chosen The speaker considers it an iconic track from an iconic album
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Desert Sun · Keith Jarrett
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Parkeriana · Charlie Mingus

Why it was chosen Celebrating Charlie Parker, that prophet of bebop