Deep in the Stacks: Your Daily Jazz LP Podcast
Every day, Danny from Kissa Kissa -- the Japanese-style jazz vinyl bar in Crown Heights, Brooklyn -- pulls one album from the stacks and tells you who made it, why it matters, and what to listen for. Three minutes, one record you need to hear. Calendar-driven picks tied to recording dates and artist birthdays, plus deep cuts from the Kissa Kissa collection.
Deep in the Stacks: Your Daily Jazz LP Podcast
Latest Episodes
Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers — Horace Silver (Blue Note, 1955)
Nobody had fused the Black church with bebop and made it swing like this before. Horace Silver brought gospel-inflected melody lines into jazz with The Preacher and Doodlin', backed by Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins, and Art Blakey. This ...
Live At Slugs' Volume 1 & 2 — Music Inc. (Strata-East, 1972)
Recorded on this date in 1970. Slugs' was the kind of after-hours club where the real music happened -- a cramped basement dive on East Third Street where musicians went to stretch out after their uptown gigs ended. Charles Tolliver had been maki...
One Step Beyond — Jackie McLean (Blue Note, 1963)
Recorded on this date in 1963. McLean was at a crossroads. The hard bop alto master had spent the late fifties running with Miles Davis and Art Blakey, but by nineteen sixty-three, he was pushing beyond the familiar changes and chord structures. ...
Night Dreamer — Wayne Shorter (Blue Note, 1964)
Recorded on this date in 1964. By April nineteen sixty-four, Shorter had already logged time with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, but Night Dreamer was his moment to step forward as a leader with something to say. Blue Note paired him with Lee Morg...
My Gentleman Friend — Blossom Dearie (Verve Records, 1959)
Blossom Dearie born on this date in 1924. By nineteen fifty-nine, Dearie had already conquered the Paris jazz scene and made her mark in London, but this Verve Records session marked her full arrival as a recording artist in America. Producer Nor...