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Tracks of the Week 09.03.24

Tracks of the Week
Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled back the drapes, revealing the names and circumstances of the 46,000 slave owners who received compensation when the Slavery Abolition Act was finally passed after decades of...

Tracks of the Week 03.12.22

Tracks of the Week
Overlooked at the time, following a handful of sessions on Blue Note which marked his debut as a leader, between 1952 and 1954 the pianist Thelonious Monk cut a series of records for Prestige, some of the earliest and greatest of which were collected under the title Thelonious Monk Trio. Intense, improvisational, and virtuosic as Monk played accompanied by...