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Jazz and Blues Lounge

November 26th, 2007

Chicago Jazz Record Label

You have to love speciality record stores.  I also love a place where you can still buy jazz records.  I mean real records.  I mean things pressed out of vinyl and with grooves in it that you have to put on a turntable and then place a needle.  There is just something cool about jazz […]

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September 21st, 2007

In Memory of Vee-Jay Records

There was a time when Michigan Avenue was lined with record labels.  Michigan Avenue is the main road through downtown Chicago, for those of you who do not know.  In fact, the south Michigan area was once know as “Record Row.”  Some of the greatest Chicago blues musicians the world has ever seen recorded there.  […]

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