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About Jazz.com's Music Reviews – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 20, 2007 · 0 comments About Jazz.com's Music Reviews For more than a year, a team of twenty-three critics has been working under my direc...
Something Old, Something New – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 27, 2007 · 0 comments Something Old, Something New One of the challenges in covering the jazz world by blog or review, or with a comprehe...
How Fast Can You Play "Cherokee"? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 16, 2007 · 0 comments How Fast Can You Play "Cherokee"? This story begins many years ago. I was driving late at night on Highw...
Welcome to jazz.com – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 01, 2007 · 0 comments Welcome to jazz.com We are proudly opening our doors after almost two years of behind-the-scenes efforts to create a...
Essential Modern Jazz Trumpet – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog December 26, 2007 · 0 comments Essential Modern Jazz Trumpet More than thirty writers are contributing to jazz.com, but Matt Leskovic hits higher t...
The Secret Method for Learning Jazz Piano: Stop 'n Cop – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 31, 2007 · 2 comments The Secret Method for Learning Jazz Piano: Stop 'n Cop Forty years ago, jazz education hardly existed as a profess...
A Time to Celebrate . . . – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog December 30, 2007 · 0 comments A Time to Celebrate . . . We are not just closing out the year . . . we are also concluding our first month on...
Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 24, 2007 · 3 comments Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) With the passing of Oscar Peterson, we have lost one of the last representatives of the g...
Last Survivor of Ellington's Cotton Club Band Celebrates the Century Mark – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 23, 2007 · 1 comment Last Survivor of Ellington's Cotton Club Band Celebrates the Century Mark The jazz world often romanticizes the music...
Introducing the 'Dozens' – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog December 12, 2007 · 0 comments Introducing the 'Dozens' In the coming days, I will introduce you to some of the more interesting features on our...
Les Paul (Age 92) Upstages the Music Writers – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 13, 2007 · 0 comments Les Paul (Age 92) Upstages the Music Writers I am in New York for the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award ceremonies, which co...
Manfred Eicher and ECM – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 25, 2007 · 0 comments Manfred Eicher and ECM Record labels come and go, and even those that survive rarely maintain their independence. T...
The Artwork of Keith Henry Brown – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 18, 2008 · 0 comments The Artwork of Keith Henry Brown The Composer, artwork by Keith Henry Brown As regular vis...
Listen to these CDs . . . Even If They Sound Awful! – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 09, 2008 · 1 comment Listen to these CDs . . . Even If They Sound Awful! I have devoted several postings here recently to the issue of s...
Revisiting Classic Jazz Tracks – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 11, 2008 · 0 comments Revisiting Classic Jazz Tracks Jazz.com highlights two tracks every day. The Song of the Day aims to focus attent...
B.B. King is Still Taking Chances – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 07, 2008 · 0 comments B.B. King is Still Taking Chances You will find B.B. Kings new release One Kind Favor, like his other CDs, in t...
The Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 29, 2008 · 0 comments The Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival The Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, now in its eighth year, was almost overcome ...
Tito Puente: The Complete 78s (1949-1955) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 16, 2008 · 0 comments Tito Puente: The Complete 78s (1949-1955) The broad rubric "Latin jazz" encompasses many diverse recipes. Oft...
Remembering Richard Sudhalter – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 28, 2008 · 1 comment Remembering Richard Sudhalter The jazz world is mourning the loss of Richard Sudhalter, a pioneering jazz historian ...
Jazz Diplomacy for Troubled Times – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 17, 2008 · 0 comments Jazz Diplomacy for Troubled Times Jazz fans are justifiably proud to see their favorite music show up at Lincoln Ce...
Horace Silver at Eighty – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 01, 2008 · 2 comments Horace Silver at Eighty No one did more to set the hard bop movement into orbit than Horace Silver, who celebrates...
Television's Peter Gunn Turns 50 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2008 · 2 comments Television's Peter Gunn Turns 50 Fifty years ago this month, TV viewers were introduced to Peter Gunn in "The Kill,...
A Glimpse Inside the Practice Room – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 08, 2008 · 0 comments A Glimpse Inside the Practice Room In the old days, a musicians practice room was like Vegas . . . what happened t...
A Surprise from Patricia Barber – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 21, 2008 · 0 comments A Surprise from Patricia Barber You can tell a lot about Patricia Barber from the way she opens her recordings...
The Best Jazz Tracks for September – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 30, 2008 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks for September Lets look back at the best new tracks featured on jazz.com during September. As...
Is Jazz More Popular Than Democracy? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 24, 2008 · 0 comments Is Jazz More Popular Than Democracy? As we count down to November's U.S. presidential election, our web site's resi...
McCoy Tyner Takes on the Guitarists – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 23, 2008 · 0 comments McCoy Tyner Takes on the Guitarists McCoy Tyner has rarely recorded with guitarists during the course of his caree...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 04, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup Last week, jazz.com published its 3,000th review. Since jazz.coms launch last Decem...
No Border Fences in Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 15, 2008 · 0 comments No Border Fences in Jazz Elio Villafranca may not be a household name, but he is one of the more exciting music...
Miles Davis's Memorable Nonet – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 03, 2008 · 1 comment Miles Davis's Memorable Nonet On September 4, 1948, Miles Davis brought a nine-piece band into the Royal Roost, a c...
Hip Hop is to Jazz as Termitz R2 Wud – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 02, 2008 · 12 comments Hip Hop is to Jazz as Termitz R2 Wud A few days ago, jazz.coms Jared Pauley championed the fraternization of j...
Jazz Music With Strings Attached – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 14, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz Music With Strings Attached Why does the mixture of jazz and strings so seldom live up to my expectations? ...
Introducing the 1040 JAZZ FAN EZ – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 22, 2008 · 5 comments Introducing the 1040 JAZZ FAN EZ A trillion here, a trillion there . . . pretty soon it adds up to real money. But...
The South Asian Tinge in Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 20, 2008 · 2 comments The South Asian Tinge in Jazz Jelly Roll Morton, in an oft-quoted passage, once spoke about the "Spanish tinge" tha...
An Adventurous Festival that Crosses Borders and Genres – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 18, 2008 · 0 comments An Adventurous Festival that Crosses Borders and Genres Thierry Qunum covers the jazz scene from his home base in Pa...
Jazz.com's First Annual Album Cover Awards – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 27, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz.com's First Annual Album Cover Awards During our inaugural year, jazz.com has published more than 3,500 track-by...
Bobby Sanabria Celebrates the Legacy of Tito Puente – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 09, 2008 · 1 comment Bobby Sanabria Celebrates the Legacy of Tito Puente Eugene Marlow, who recently conducted an in-depth interview with ...
Charlie Parker in Washington, D.C., 1948 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 11, 2008 · 3 comments Charlie Parker in Washington, D.C., 1948 Jazz fans today can hardly appreciate the hostility between the opposed sp...
Laszlo Gardony at Sculler's – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 16, 2008 · 0 comments Laszlo Gardony at Sculler's Roanna Forman covers the fertile Boston jazz scene for jazz.com. She recently wrote in...
The Jazz Artwork of Don Pulver – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 06, 2008 · 0 comments The Jazz Artwork of Don Pulver This may not be Chelsea or even an inexpensive loft with pipes running across the ...
The Spirit of Django Haunts Birdland – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 17, 2008 · 3 comments The Spirit of Django Haunts Birdland Bill Barnes is jazz.coms resident expert on Gypsy jazz. Regular readers may ...
21 Tracks to Check Out – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 01, 2008 · 0 comments 21 Tracks to Check Out I like to listen to new music every day, but even a jazz hound like me sometimes is overwhe...
Sonny Rollins on Video – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 10, 2008 · 0 comments Sonny Rollins on Video Thomas Cunniffe, who recently published an in-depth article on Mel Torm & Marty Paich's Dek-...
Backstage at the Django Reinhardt Festival – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 19, 2008 · 0 comments Backstage at the Django Reinhardt Festival In part one of this article, Bill Barnes reviewed the ninth annual Djan...
Dominique Eade at New England Conservatory – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 26, 2008 · 0 comments Dominique Eade at New England Conservatory Roanna Forman covers the Boston jazz scene for jazz.com. Recently she r...
Best Jazz Tracks for November – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 30, 2008 · 0 comments Best Jazz Tracks for November This track sounds like the 1972 disco hit 'Soul Makossa' as if sung by Kate Bush in d...
Wynton Marsalis and the JALC Orchestra Play Monk – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 24, 2008 · 1 comment Wynton Marsalis and the JALC Orchestra Play Monk Chris Kelsey, an editor and writer for jazz.com, recently contribu...
Still No Oscar for Russ Garcia – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 23, 2008 · 4 comments Still No Oscar for Russ Garcia Regular readers of this column will be aware of the scandal surrounding Russ Garcia'...
Ten Years After . . . Looking Back at the Buena Vista Social Club – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 04, 2008 · 0 comments Ten Years After . . . Looking Back at the Buena Vista Social Club In the aftermath of a long political campaign, it...
McCoy Tyner Talks About "Guitars" – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 03, 2008 · 0 comments McCoy Tyner Talks About "Guitars" For more than a month, McCoy Tyner's latest CD, Guitars, has held the ...
Jazz Currents Meet in Sweden – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 12, 2008 · 0 comments Jazz Currents Meet in Sweden No critic covers jazz in more countries than the indefatigable Stuart Nicholson, who...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 13, 2008 · 1 comment Weekend Track Review Roundup A few days ago, jazz.com published its 3,500th track review. It's hard to believe that ...
Election Night with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 05, 2008 · 6 comments Election Night with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra The jazz community was active throughout the campaig...
From Björk to Miles in Cologne – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 25, 2008 · 0 comments From Björk to Miles in Cologne Stuart Nicholson covers the world for jazz.com. Over the course of 2008, he has rep...
Herbie Hancock & Gerald Clayton in Italy – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 20, 2008 · 1 comment Herbie Hancock & Gerald Clayton in Italy Ted Panken continues to report on exciting happenings at the Umbria Jazz Fe...
Life at the Gypsy Jazz Camp (Part One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 27, 2008 · 1 comment Life at the Gypsy Jazz Camp (Part One) When jazz.coms Bill Barnes told me was running off to Gypsy jazz camp, I had vis...
Where Copyright Goes Wrong – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 09, 2008 · 3 comments Where Copyright Goes Wrong Jazz.com's ever-vigilant resident curmudgeon, Alan Kurtz, has a typically contrarian take o...
Diary of a Jazz Musician: Final Installment – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 07, 2008 · 1 comment Diary of a Jazz Musician: Final Installment Recently jazz.com published portions of Fry Aagres diary from her tour of ...
Response to "Is Bird Dead?" – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 29, 2008 · 1 comment Response to "Is Bird Dead?" Paris-based Thierry Quénum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, offers his comments...
Jazz Update from Italy (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 16, 2008 · 0 comments Jazz Update from Italy (Part Two) Below is Ted Panken's second dispatch from the Perugia, Italy, where he takes time ou...
The Future of Jazz Radio – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 06, 2008 · 1 comment The Future of Jazz Radio One of the most pressing issues facing the jazz world is the gradual and seemingly irreversible...
Remembering Johnny Griffin – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 28, 2008 · 2 comments Remembering Johnny Griffin Ted Panken shares his thoughts on saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who died in France on Friday. ...
Sonny Rollins & Charles Lloyd in Italy – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 17, 2008 · 0 comments Sonny Rollins & Charles Lloyd in Italy Every summer, jazz stars descend on Perugia, Italy for the Umbria Jazz Festi...
4,000 Arts Advocates Meet in Denver – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 01, 2008 · 1 comment 4,000 Arts Advocates Meet in Denver According to the National Endowment for the Arts, there are approximately two mill...
Revisiting Jazz Classics – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 10, 2008 · 0 comments Revisiting Jazz Classics Five days per week, jazz.com highlights a classic recording from the past. This feature, cal...
Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson: Can Country Music and Jazz Peacefully Co-Exist? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 08, 2008 · 4 comments Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson: Can Country Music and Jazz Peacefully Co-Exist? Today Blue Note releases an unusu...
The Festival of a Thousand Gigs – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 21, 2008 · 1 comment The Festival of a Thousand Gigs Imagine a jazz festival with almost 1,000 performances in more than 100 venues, all cramm...
The Best Jazz Tracks for July – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 31, 2008 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks for July The Song of the Day is a regular feature at jazz.com that aims to call attention to the be...
Hank Jones at Ninety – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 30, 2008 · 0 comments Hank Jones at Ninety Hank Jones celebrates his 90th birthday tomorrow. Tonight he is (no surprise) working on the road...
Is Bird Dead? (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 24, 2008 · 8 comments Is Bird Dead? (Part Two) In the first part of this article, I described my surprise at how seldom I discern the influen...
The Coltrane Fantasy Fusion CD – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 23, 2008 · 0 comments The Coltrane Fantasy Fusion CD Jazz.com contributor Walter Kolosky frequently discusses his favorite musicians and re...
Is Bird Dead? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 15, 2008 · 11 comments Is Bird Dead? One of the most surprising developments in the jazz world in recent years has been the declining influen...
Monk in Morse Code; Bill Evans with Hiccups – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 03, 2008 · 0 comments Monk in Morse Code; Bill Evans with Hiccups Stuart Nicholson is the Indiana Jones of jazz, constantly on the prowl for...
Buddy Bolden on the Holodeck – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 02, 2008 · 7 comments Buddy Bolden on the Holodeck Recent articles on jazz.com have raised troubling questions about new technologies that, ...
Open Letter to Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen & Bill Cosby – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 13, 2008 · 18 comments Open Letter to Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen & Bill Cosby Jazz fans have long enjoyed a love-hate relationship with...
Jazz Update from Umbria – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 14, 2008 · 0 comments Jazz Update from Umbria Ted Panken, a regular contributor to jazz.com, sends in this dispatch from Perugia, Italy. P...
This Stamp is First Class – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 22, 2008 · 3 comments This Stamp is First Class Even if jazz musicians aren't making much money, they soon will be on your money -- be on the...
New Technology Shakes Up the Jazz World – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 18, 2008 · 1 comment New Technology Shakes Up the Jazz World Earlier this week, I discussed the remarkable (and controversial) new recordin...
A Festival That Avoids the J Word – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 09, 2008 · 0 comments A Festival That Avoids the J Word Stuart Nicholson reports below on a festival that breaks all of the rules. It pres...
Smooth Jazz Obits Are Premature – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 11, 2008 · 3 comments Smooth Jazz Obits Are Premature Editor's Note: Alan Kurtz, jazz.com's resident curmudgeon, is our fledgling sites mos...
Letters: More on Bill Finegan – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 11, 2008 · 1 comment Letters: More on Bill Finegan In response to Jeff Sultanof's tribute to the late Bill Finegan, Ray Hoffman shares the...
The Jazz Network Takes Off – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 29, 2008 · 6 comments The Jazz Network Takes Off The word "community" has taken on many new meanings since the rise of the Internet. Certai...
A New Technology to Bring Old Jazz Recordings Back to Life – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 16, 2008 · 1 comment A New Technology to Bring Old Jazz Recordings Back to Life Over the years, experts have struggled to take old recordings...
The Saga of David Benoit: How Smoooooth Can You Get? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 17, 2008 · 0 comments The Saga of David Benoit: How Smoooooth Can You Get? Over the years, I have encountered two different philosophies on...
Indiana Jones & Me – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 01, 2008 · 0 comments Indiana Jones & Me From the Department of Shameless Plugs: Believe it or not, your indefatigable blogger can be...
The Best Jazz Tracks for May – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 01, 2008 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks for May Five times each week, jazz.com highlights a Song of the Day, drawn from the best of the re...
Jazz.com is Six Months Old – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 10, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz.com is Six Months Old Six months ago, on December 10, jazz.com opened its doors. More than a year of preparation h...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 19, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup It’s not your typical Juneteenth around jazz.com. Like beaming parents, we are celebrati...
Radio France Pulls the Plug on Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 26, 2008 · 2 comments Radio France Pulls the Plug on Jazz American Jazz fans might be surprised at how much the art form relies upon support f...
Remembering Bill Finegan (1917-2008) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 08, 2008 · 5 comments Remembering Bill Finegan (1917-2008) Jeff Sultanof is a regular contributor to jazz.com, who periodically enriches our...
The Best Jazz Tracks for June – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 30, 2008 · 1 comment The Best Jazz Tracks for June Some of the best CDs of 2008 are releases you might be afraid to buy. The cover to Re...
Jazz Journalists Hand Out Awards – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 24, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz Journalists Hand Out Awards The annual Jazz Journalist Association award ceremony is an increasingly important ev...
Remembering Esbjörn Svensson (1964-2008) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 23, 2008 · 4 comments Remembering Esbjörn Svensson (1964-2008) Few jazz writers have demonstrated a deeper understanding and appreciation of...
Revisiting Keith Jarrett's "American Quartet" – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 04, 2008 · 0 comments Revisiting Keith Jarrett's "American Quartet" How odd! Imagine trying to record Keith Jarrett's more compl...
Life on the Road: More from Fry Aagres Tour Diary – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 15, 2008 · 1 comment Life on the Road: More from Fry Aagres Tour Diary Recently jazz.com published the first installment of Fry Aagres fasci...
Life on the Road: The Journal of a Traveling Jazz Musician – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 03, 2008 · 3 comments Life on the Road: The Journal of a Traveling Jazz Musician Editor's Note: Although much is written about jazz, little...
A Fitting Memorial for Eddie Harris – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 12, 2008 · 0 comments A Fitting Memorial for Eddie Harris Jazz.com is delighted to introduce a new contributor, Neil Tesser, a leading jazz c...
JazzFest in Puerto Rico (Day One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 02, 2008 · 2 comments JazzFest in Puerto Rico (Day One) Recent reviews in this space have covered jazz happenings in Norway, Estonia, Ireland...
Pat Metheny and the Fort Apache Band in Puerto Rico – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 05, 2008 · 2 comments Pat Metheny and the Fort Apache Band in Puerto Rico Earlier this week, jazz.com presented Tomas Peas account of day on...
Pat Metheny and the Fort Apache Band in Puerto Rico – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 05, 2008 · 3 comments Pat Metheny and the Fort Apache Band in Puerto Rico Earlier this week, jazz.com presented Tomas Peña’s account of day ...
Behind the Scenes at the Jazz Encyclopedia Project – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 22, 2008 · 1 comment Behind the Scenes at the Jazz Encyclopedia Project Regular site visitors to jazz.com are probably familiar with our Ency...
Art Pepper Lives! – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog June 25, 2008 · 4 comments Art Pepper Lives! The appearance of unreleased recordings by alto saxophonist Art Pepper is certainly a cause for celeb...
Old Jazz & New Media – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 20, 2008 · 2 comments Old Jazz & New Media In the early days of modern jazz, the music media fueled the fires of conflict between fans...
75th Birthday Bash for David 'Fathead' Newman – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 27, 2008 · 1 comment 75th Birthday Bash for David 'Fathead' Newman David 'Fathead' Newman's 75th Bi...
Second IAJE Update from Toronto – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 11, 2008 · 0 comments Second IAJE Update from Toronto The I in IAJE stands for international: it marks the group's change, over time, from...
Mystery Recordings from the Past – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog January 07, 2008 · 0 comments Mystery Recordings from the Past Every now and then some jazz oddity shows up on eBay or one of the other web auction...
Remembering Bill Evans – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 29, 2008 · 8 comments Remembering Bill Evans Bill Evans, artwork by Suzanne Cerny On Friday September 5, 1980 I w...
Ahmad Jamal's "Poinciana" Turns 50 Today – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 16, 2008 · 1 comment Ahmad Jamal's "Poinciana" Turns 50 Today Fifty years ago today, Ahmad Jamal mesmerized an audience at the Pe...
Searching for the Man Behind the Great Contemporary Jazz Recordings – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog January 06, 2008 · 0 comments Searching for the Man Behind the Great Contemporary Jazz Recordings I often encounter young jazz fans (and even crit...
Sweet Rhythm Packed for George Cables – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 28, 2008 · 0 comments Sweet Rhythm Packed for George Cables Jazz.com's arnold jay smith was in attendance at Sweet Rhythm for the benefit...
Knife Fight Breaks Out Over Sun Ra Review – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 17, 2008 · 2 comments Knife Fight Breaks Out Over Sun Ra Review Well maybe not a real knife fight. This is the Internet, after all, and t...
Alan Kurtz's Twelve Lovers – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 01, 2008 · 0 comments Alan Kurtz's Twelve Lovers I generally don't inquire into our writers' private lives. Jazz critics are a bohemian lo...
IAJE Update from Toronto – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 10, 2008 · 0 comments IAJE Update from Toronto Jazz.com editor Tim Wilkins sends the following report from the IAJE convention in Toronto. ...
The Latin Jazz Gumbo – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog January 21, 2008 · 0 comments The Latin Jazz Gumbo Bob Blumenthal’s interview with Eddie Palmieri and Brian Lynch, which is published today on jaz...
Song of the Day – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog January 31, 2008 · 0 comments Song of the Day I read in the paper the other day that the value of Silver is on the rise. The folks at Blue Note...
Revisiting Classic Jazz Tracks – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog January 30, 2008 · 0 comments Revisiting Classic Jazz Tracks Every weekday, jazz.com selects two songs to feature on its home page. The Song of t...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog January 24, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup Jazz.com continues its quixotic but noble pursuit of reviewing all the great - and even ...
Whole Lotta Bass – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 23, 2008 · 0 comments Whole Lotta Bass Ben Allison is not your typical jazz composer. He claims that the bass-lines for the title song fr...
Twelve Trumpeters You Need to Know on a First Name Basis – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog January 03, 2008 · 1 comment Twelve Trumpeters You Need to Know on a First Name Basis We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Browni...
The Jazz Photography of Jos L. Knaepen – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 02, 2008 · 2 comments The Jazz Photography of Jos L. Knaepen Bobby McFerrin & Chick Corea Photo by Jo...
Duke Ellington is My Co-Pilot – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog January 22, 2008 · 1 comment Duke Ellington is My Co-Pilot The role of the jazz critic has been greatly complicated in recent years by the prolife...
How I Rediscovered the Blues – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 20, 2008 · 1 comment How I Rediscovered the Blues Today marks the official publication of my new book Delta Blues, a work that has been i...
Bossa Still Sounds Nova Fifty Year Later – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 27, 2008 · 0 comments Bossa Still Sounds Nova Fifty Year Later Tim Wilkins, a frequent contributor to these pages and editor of the jazz.c...
Jazz.com Blogger Goes on Book Tour – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 09, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz.com Blogger Goes on Book Tour Your indefatigable blogger is going on the road. In the coming weeks, I will be ma...
Roy Hargrove Brings It On Home – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 07, 2008 · 0 comments Roy Hargrove Brings It On Home Thats what Roy Hargrove did, once again, at Bostons Scullers Jazz Club last weekend. ...
Milton Nascimento in New Jersey – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 29, 2008 · 0 comments Milton Nascimento in New Jersey Tim Wilkins, who covered Toninho Horta’s recent concert in this column earlier in th...
The Future is Punkt – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 06, 2008 · 0 comments The Future is Punkt When I heard the name, I knew it was a different kind of jazz festival: Punkt. You can tell ...
Ornette: The Blue Note Years (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 28, 2008 · 1 comment Ornette: The Blue Note Years (Part Two) Below we continue with the final installment of Chris Kelsey's two part artic...
Ladies Take Over BeanTown Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 01, 2008 · 2 comments Ladies Take Over BeanTown Jazz Below Roanna Forman concludes her two-part article on the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festi...
Remembering Neal Hefti – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 19, 2008 · 3 comments Remembering Neal Hefti A few days ago, when the media reported on the death of composer and arranger Neal Hefti, they...
Remembering Peter Levinson – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 26, 2008 · 6 comments Remembering Peter Levinson The jazz world is mourning the passing of Peter Levinson, a publicist and biographer and ...
Digging Imaginary Compact Disks – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 08, 2008 · 0 comments Digging Imaginary Compact Disks Some kids have make-believe friends, and I've even heard of a grown-up who claimed ...
Ornette: The Blue Note Years – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 21, 2008 · 0 comments Ornette: The Blue Note Years Ornette Coleman's stint as a Blue Note recording artist was short-lived, and his recordi...
Revisiting Classic Jazz Tracks – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 30, 2008 · 0 comments Revisiting Classic Jazz Tracks Regular visitors to jazz.com know that we highlight a great track from the past every ...
From the Mail: More on Jazz Vocals – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 23, 2008 · 0 comments From the Mail: More on Jazz Vocals Some time back jazz.com published a series of articles on the current state of ja...
A New Label in the Jazz World (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 15, 2008 · 1 comment A New Label in the Jazz World (Part Two) In the first part of this article, Bill Barnes looked at the career of George...
Where is the Outrage Over Russ Garcia's Denied Oscar? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 12, 2008 · 30 comments Where is the Outrage Over Russ Garcia's Denied Oscar? Where is the outrage? Several weeks ago, Marc Myers pub...
Where is the Outrage Over Russ Garcia's Denied Oscar? – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog October 12, 2008 · 22 comments Where is the Outrage Over Russ Garcia's Denied Oscar? Where is the outrage? Several weeks ago, Marc Myers pub...
Charlie Haden Releases a Killin' Country CD – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 02, 2008 · 3 comments Charlie Haden Releases a Killin' Country CD Generally jazz fans dont pay much attention to country music. But jazz...
Hank Jones and James Moody Keep Jammin' – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 13, 2008 · 2 comments Hank Jones and James Moody Keep Jammin' Hank Jones and James Moody are redefining the meaning of those golden years...
Jamming on the Carrot Panpipes – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 05, 2008 · 0 comments Jamming on the Carrot Panpipes I never fail to be impressed with the range of strange musical offerings available on...
A New Label in the Jazz World – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 14, 2008 · 2 comments A New Label in the Jazz World Many jazz lovers dream of starting their own record label, but few have the passion and...
2009 NEA Jazz Masters Honored – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 22, 2008 · 1 comment 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Honored Jazz fans love a party, and the biggest bash in jazz these days is the annual celebratio...
Sardinia Presents Time in Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 20, 2008 · 0 comments Sardinia Presents Time in Jazz Paris-based Thierry Qunum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, sends us this report on a...
Letter from Europe (Part Two) – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog August 18, 2008 · 0 comments Letter from Europe (Part Two) Below is the second and final part of Stuart Nicholson's report on the surprising rise...
Jazz and Hip-Hop (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 27, 2008 · 0 comments Jazz and Hip-Hop (Part Two) Is the marriage of jazz and hip-hop a happy coupling of kindred spirits, or a doomed rela...
The Artwork of Jerry Blank – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 09, 2008 · 1 comment The Artwork of Jerry Blank Ive always found myself fascinated by images of jazz musicians caught in the heat of perform...
The Queenan-Service Debate – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 11, 2008 · 2 comments The Queenan-Service Debate We dont spend much time worrying about the world of classical music here at jazz.com. But...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog August 07, 2008 · 1 comment Weekend Track Review Roundup Someday The New York Times or The New Yorker will report on this scrappy little web site...
Letter from Europe (Part One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 16, 2008 · 0 comments Letter from Europe (Part One) Stuart Nicholson, a frequent contributor to these pages, finds a surprising resurgence...
Remembering Jerry Graff – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 06, 2008 · 8 comments Remembering Jerry Graff Jeff Sultanof is an astute commentator on jazz matters, and one of jazz.com's resident experts...
Watch Out Wikipedia . . . Here We Come! – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog August 28, 2008 · 0 comments Watch Out Wikipedia . . . Here We Come! The jazz.com team continues to work behind-the-scenes on our on-line Encyclop...
Herbie Hancock on the Beach – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog August 19, 2008 · 0 comments Herbie Hancock on the Beach Bill Barnes is a regular contributor to jazz.com, and the author of our recent series ...
Jazz and Hip-Hop: Can They Really Mix? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 26, 2008 · 5 comments Jazz and Hip-Hop: Can They Really Mix? Throughout the history of jazz, musicians have been inspired by developments i...
The Velvet Fog Still Rolls In – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 21, 2008 · 1 comment The Velvet Fog Still Rolls In Thirty years ago this month, Concord Records brought singer Mel Torm together with the M...
The Best Jazz Tracks for August – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 31, 2008 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks for August Are you still listening to the same old jazz CDs? Did your musical tastes stop develo...
Uri Caine & Don Byron in Sardinia – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 24, 2008 · 1 comment Uri Caine & Don Byron in Sardinia Paris-based Thierry Quénum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, concludes his cove...
Life at Gypsy Jazz Camp (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 04, 2008 · 0 comments Life at Gypsy Jazz Camp (Part Two) While the rest of us were catching up on Summer chores or taking the kids to see ...
John Abercrombie at Riverspace Café – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog August 03, 2008 · 1 comment John Abercrombie at Riverspace Café Ralph Miriello, a regular contributor to these pages (see his recent interview wit...
Does Return to Forever Tour Signal a Return to Fusion? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 12, 2008 · 0 comments Does Return to Forever Tour Signal a Return to Fusion? Walter Kolosky is a regular contributor to jazz.com -- his in...
Joan Osborne at The Cutting Room – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog August 13, 2008 · 1 comment Joan Osborne at The Cutting Room Ralph Miriello, a regular contributor to these pages, reports on Joan Osborne’s rece...
Eight Items from My Jazz Wish List – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog August 05, 2008 · 0 comments Eight Items from My Jazz Wish List It’s time to update the old jazz wish list. The jazz scene is almost perfect. B...
Life at Gypsy Jazz Camp (Part Three) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 14, 2008 · 4 comments Life at Gypsy Jazz Camp (Part Three) In case you haven’t noticed, Gypsy jazz is hotter than ever, and finding fans i...
Frank Sinatra Sings Weather Report – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog August 25, 2008 · 2 comments Frank Sinatra Sings Weather Report We have fantasy football and fantasy baseball . . . why not fantasy jazz? This ...
Remembering Andrew Hill – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 20, 2008 · 0 comments Remembering Andrew Hill Eric Novod, a regular contributor to jazz.com, shares some thoughts below spurred by the anniv...
Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 27, 2008 · 3 comments Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008) Twenty years ago, Sheldon Meyer of Oxford University Press asked me what subject I wanted to ...
Revisiting Jazz Classics – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 09, 2008 · 0 comments Revisiting Jazz Classics Jazz.com features A Classic Revisited five day per week. This is our chance to showcase si...
More on the Kenya Concert – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 07, 2008 · 1 comment More on the Kenya Concert On Friday, we published Tim Wilkins account of Bobby Sanabrias Kenya concert. Jazz.coms Euge...
Day Two at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 29, 2008 · 0 comments Day Two at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Below Zoie Clift continues her coverage of the New Orleans Ja...
The Master of Tango Nuevo – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 16, 2008 · 0 comments The Master of Tango Nuevo Scott Albin is a regular contributor to these pages -- you may have seen his recent articles...
Ben Allison in Concert – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 06, 2008 · 0 comments Ben Allison in Concert Its hard to make predictions about 2008 when we are barely into April. But I feel safe in asse...
Day One at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 28, 2008 · 0 comments Day One at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is in the midst of i...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 17, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup A few days ago, jazz.com published its 2,000th review pretty good for a web site that onl...
Great Brazilian Songs That Aren't Tall & Tan, Young & Lovely . . . – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 01, 2008 · 1 comment Great Brazilian Songs That Aren't Tall & Tan, Young & Lovely . . . Yesterday, in discussing Karrin Allysons new...
Kurt Rosenwinkel Live – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 10, 2008 · 0 comments Kurt Rosenwinkel Live The Remedy, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkels first album in three years and his first live release in...
Remembering Phil Urso (1925-2008) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 08, 2008 · 5 comments Remembering Phil Urso (1925-2008) The public image of West Coast jazz has always emphasized the cool and laid-back asp...
Where Were You on Record Store Day? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 21, 2008 · 3 comments Where Were You on Record Store Day? Some people might think that the day of record stores passed a long time ago. The...
The Best Jazz Tracks for April – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 30, 2008 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks for April If I told you that Nicholas Payton had decided to feature the song Chinatown on his new ...
Good Riddance to Record Stores – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 24, 2008 · 9 comments Good Riddance to Record Stores A few days ago, jazz.com published Mark Saleski's comments on Record Store Day, an eve...
The Best of the Press Kits – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 23, 2008 · 0 comments The Best of the Press Kits Who needs reviews? The critics are rarely as entertaining as the press kits. Here are som...
From the Mailbag: Brazilian Music – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 15, 2008 · 0 comments From the Mailbag: Brazilian Music Below are some responses to jazz.com's recent blog discussion on Brazilian songs. (Re...
Bobby Sanabria Recreates an Afro-Cuban Classic – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 03, 2008 · 2 comments Bobby Sanabria Recreates an Afro-Cuban Classic Jazz.com recently published a fascinating interview with Bobby Sanabria ...
Was "Kind of Blue" Kinda Fun? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 02, 2008 · 0 comments Was "Kind of Blue" Kinda Fun? Drummer Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving participant from the great Kind of Blu...
New Feature at Jazz.com: Guest Artist Dozens – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 13, 2008 · 0 comments New Feature at Jazz.com: Guest Artist Dozens Randy Brecker By Jos L. Knaepen Jazz.com launches a new fea...
Is the Laptop a Jazz Instrument? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 14, 2008 · 1 comment Is the Laptop a Jazz Instrument? Eugene Marlow, who recently covered the Bobby Sanabria Kenya concert for jazz.com, off...
From the Mailbag: Jazz Singing – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 22, 2008 · 1 comment From the Mailbag: Jazz Singing Jazz.com's recent series of articles on the current state of jazz singing continues to...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 20, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup Jazz.com has published 157 reviews during the last three weeks – offering our site visitor...
A Jazz Festival That Doesn't Book Stars? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 18, 2008 · 0 comments A Jazz Festival That Doesn't Book Stars? Jazz.com's Stuart Nicholson travels far and wide in search of the best new m...
New Feature: Desert Island Dozens – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 27, 2008 · 1 comment New Feature: Desert Island Dozens One of the most popular features at jazz.com has been The Dozens. The idea is simpl...
Remembering Bix – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 09, 2008 · 0 comments Remembering Bix Who can be surprised that when Hollywood finally made a big-budget film about a jazz musician, the mov...
Everybody Jams for Dizzy! – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 11, 2008 · 0 comments Everybody Jams for Dizzy! The jazz world revolved around Dizzy Gillespie for more than a half century. When he told u...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 06, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup Jazz.com’s team of 33 reviewers has published 600 reviews during the last ten weeks – offe...
Lost in Transposition – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 17, 2008 · 5 comments Lost in Transposition Its hard to make great jazz even under the most favorable circumstances. But what do you do if ...
Lost in Transposition – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 17, 2008 · 5 comments Lost in Transposition It’s hard to make great jazz even under the most favorable circumstances. But what do you do if...
A Teetotaler's Toast for Tram! – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 10, 2008 · 4 comments A Teetotaler's Toast for Tram! We cant let our tribute to Bix Beiderbecke pass without giving a passing nod to his clos...
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The Legacy of Don Ellis – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 19, 2008 · 0 comments The Legacy of Don Ellis Eugene Marlow’s interview with Bobby Sanabria, published this week in jazz.com digs deeply in...
To Scat or Not To Scat . . . – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 26, 2008 · 1 comment To Scat or Not To Scat . . . Andrea Mann recently contributed a popular blog post in this column on her efforts to rai...
Brazil and Other Musical Wonders of the World – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 31, 2008 · 0 comments Brazil and Other Musical Wonders of the World In Jean-Luc Godard’s film Les Carabiniers, two soldiers return home to t...
The Best Jazz Tracks for March – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 30, 2008 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks for March Five days each week, jazz.com selects a premier track from a recent release, and featur...
Jazz Singing Today: A View from Europe (Part One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 24, 2008 · 3 comments Jazz Singing Today: A View from Europe (Part One) My recent two-part essay on "The State of Jazz Vocals Today" receive...
Bob Blumenthal's Jazz – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 23, 2008 · 0 comments Bob Blumenthal's Jazz Bob Blumenthal, whose interview with Wayne Shorter is currently featured on our home page, has b...
Does a Piano Perspective Now Dominate Jazz? (Part 1) – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 04, 2008 · 0 comments Does a Piano Perspective Now Dominate Jazz? (Part 1) Critic Thierry Quénum who covers the global jazz scene from his h...
Charles Lloyd at Seventy – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 15, 2008 · 0 comments Charles Lloyd at Seventy Saxophonist Charles Lloyd releases a new CD this month on ECM in conjunction with his 70th bir...
Jazz Meets Thrash Rock in Oslo – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 03, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz Meets Thrash Rock in Oslo Jazz.com's Stuart Nicholson sends us this update from the by:Larm music festival in No...
Marian McPartland Plays Ornette Coleman (and Everything Else!) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 12, 2008 · 2 comments Marian McPartland Plays Ornette Coleman (and Everything Else!) A few days ago, 86-year-old Humphrey Lyttelton announce...
Who is the King of Acoustic Blues? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 02, 2008 · 2 comments Who is the King of Acoustic Blues? Who is the king of acoustic blues? I know the name you want to say, but -- sorry...
Bebop Spoken Here – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 13, 2008 · 0 comments Bebop Spoken Here Paying homage to Bird is a year-round activity among jazz players. But yesterday marked the annivers...
The King of Electric Blues? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 13, 2008 · 1 comment The King of Electric Blues? Earlier this month, I offered some speculations on which of the younger generation of guit...
Does a Piano Persepctive Now Dominate Jazz? (Part 2) – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog March 05, 2008 · 1 comment Does a Piano Persepctive Now Dominate Jazz? (Part 2) This is the second part of critic Thierry Quénum’s thought-provoki...
Jazz Singing Today: A View from Europe (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 25, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz Singing Today: A View from Europe (Part Two) Below is the second part of Thierry Qunum commentary on the current s...
A European Perspective on the Best Jazz CDs of 2008 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 18, 2008 · 1 comment A European Perspective on the Best Jazz CDs of 2008 Thierry Qunum covers the jazz scene from his home base in Paris, ...
Jazz.com is One Year Old Today – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 09, 2008 · 2 comments Jazz.com is One Year Old Today Today jazz.com celebrates its first birthday. And what a whirlwind year it has been!...
The 50 Best Jazz CDs of 2008 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 11, 2008 · 6 comments The 50 Best Jazz CDs of 2008 How many jazz CDs were released during the last year? Certainly more than one thousand...
Wayne Shorter's 75th Birthday Concert – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 07, 2008 · 0 comments Wayne Shorter's 75th Birthday Concert Jazz icon Wayne Shorter celebrated his 75th birthday with a mini-tour, includ...
Mark Saleski Overcomes Energy Crisis and Picks the Best Jazz of 2008 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 29, 2008 · 2 comments Mark Saleski Overcomes Energy Crisis and Picks the Best Jazz of 2008 Few music critics listen to more CDs than Mark ...
Time to Party Like It's 1939? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 16, 2008 · 1 comment Time to Party Like It's 1939? Below is the final installment of Eugene Marlows account of George Gee and his daring...
Remembering Eartha Kitt – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 28, 2008 · 3 comments Remembering Eartha Kitt Jazz.com's arnold jay smith covers the OctoJAZZarians beat for us, and it seems that he has...
The Artistry of Jazzamoart – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 17, 2008 · 0 comments The Artistry of Jazzamoart Charlie Parker & the Philosophy of the Saxophone (2005) ...
Don't Ignore Monday Night Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 01, 2008 · 2 comments Don't Ignore Monday Night Jazz Jazz fans, like fickle lovers, often avoid the long-term commitments as they seek out...
Can Swing Compete With Bling in NY? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 10, 2008 · 0 comments Can Swing Compete With Bling in NY? Eugene Marlow continues his account of one brave musician's plan to mount a la...
Scott Albin Selects the Best Jazz CDs and Tracks of 2008 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 08, 2008 · 1 comment Scott Albin Selects the Best Jazz CDs and Tracks of 2008 Several regular contributors to jazz.com will be offering a ...
The Ten Best World Music CDs of 2008 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 21, 2008 · 2 comments The Ten Best World Music CDs of 2008 A few days ago, I published my choices for the 50 best jazz CDs of the year, an...
The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 31, 2008 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month Is the jazz world getting stranger, or is it just me? Five days every week, jazz....
Final Chorus (2008) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 30, 2008 · 6 comments Final Chorus (2008) The jazz community knew that Freddie Hubbard's health was precarious after the heart attack he s...
The Best Blues CDs of 2008 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 24, 2008 · 1 comment The Best Blues CDs of 2008 I recently published here my choices for the best jazz CDs and world music CDs of 2008. B...
Ralph Miriello Looks at Some Jazz Highlights of 2008 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 23, 2008 · 4 comments Ralph Miriello Looks at Some Jazz Highlights of 2008 As part of our year-end festivities, several regular contributo...
Black Saints Be Praised – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 04, 2008 · 1 comment Black Saints Be Praised Chris Kelsey, an editor and writer for jazz.com, recently shared his thoughts in this space a...
Jazz.com's Best Visitor Comments of 2008 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 15, 2008 · 2 comments Jazz.com's Best Visitor Comments of 2008 Instead of selecting his favorite jazz CDs of 2008, Alan Kurtz decided to...
DC Celebrates Three Jazz Masters – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 03, 2008 · 0 comments DC Celebrates Three Jazz Masters David Tenenholtz, a regular contributor to these virtual pages, reports on a Washin...
Is New York Ready for This? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 02, 2008 · 2 comments Is New York Ready for This? Since the decline of the big bands some sixty years ago, a few brave souls have bucked...
South Asia's Leading Jazz Festival Tilts Toward Europe – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 14, 2008 · 2 comments South Asia's Leading Jazz Festival Tilts Toward Europe India has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with Ameri...
Three Jazz Piano Masters on DVD – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 22, 2008 · 1 comment Three Jazz Piano Masters on DVD Thomas Cunniffe, who recently looked at Sonny Rollinss work on DVD in this column, no...
Celebrating Classic Jazz Tracks – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 25, 2008 · 0 comments Celebrating Classic Jazz Tracks Five days per week, jazz.com highlights a memorable track from the past as part of...
The Legacy of Ella Fitzgerald – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 20, 2008 · 3 comments The Legacy of Ella Fitzgerald Jazz.com concludes its two-week focus on jazz singers with Stuart Nicholsons feature ...
Jazz Singers: The Men – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 18, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz Singers: The Men Below are some extracts from The State of Jazz of Vocals Today, focusing on male jazz singers...
Where Did Our Revolution Go? (Part Three) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 27, 2008 · 2 comments Where Did Our Revolution Go? (Part Three) This is the final installment of a three part series looking back at the ...
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Billie Holiday: Rare and Live – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 11, 2008 · 2 comments Billie Holiday: Rare and Live When I see the words "Rare Live Recordings" on the cover of a jazz CD, I generally run...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 07, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup Jazz.com published it 1,500th review earlier this week, but we are not slowing down. W...
Can Minimalism and Jazz Co-Exist? Nik Brtsch Says Yes! – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 06, 2008 · 2 comments Can Minimalism and Jazz Co-Exist? Nik Brtsch Says Yes! The golden age of minimalist music lasted a quarter of a ce...
The Best Jazz Tracks for February – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 28, 2008 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks for February If your eyes ever mosey on down toward the bottom left of the Jazz.com home page,...
The Nightfly Revisited – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 17, 2008 · 26 comments The Nightfly Revisited When jazz fans look back at the fusion music of the late 1960s and 1970s, they tend to see ...
Remembering Earl May (1927-2008) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 10, 2008 · 2 comments Remembering Earl May (1927-2008) Jazz.com's arnold jay smith offers this tribute to bassist Earl May, who passed a...
Revisiting Jazz Classics – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 19, 2008 · 0 comments Revisiting Jazz Classics Jazz.com features A Classic Revisited five day per week. This is a significant jazz trac...
Where Did Our Revolution Go? (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 26, 2008 · 0 comments Where Did Our Revolution Go? (Part Two) This is the second part of a three part series looking back at the fifty ye...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 21, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup Jazz.com continues its quixotic but noble pursuit of reviewing all the great - and even...
Remembering Teo Macero (1925-2008) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 24, 2008 · 2 comments Remembering Teo Macero (1925-2008) Jazz.com's arnold jay smith contributes these reminisces on celebrated producer...
Keith Jarrett Standards Trio Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 04, 2008 · 4 comments Keith Jarrett Standards Trio Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Back in 1983, jazz fans had come to expect a lot from ...
It Happened a Long Way from Monterey – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 03, 2008 · 1 comment It Happened a Long Way from Monterey If you can’t get the whole country to come to the Monterey Jazz Festival, have ...
Herbie Hancock, Chris Anderson & the Chicago School of Modern Jazz Piano – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 12, 2008 · 0 comments Herbie Hancock, Chris Anderson & the Chicago School of Modern Jazz Piano The last time a jazz recording earned ...
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Jazz Vocals in the New Millennium – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 13, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz Vocals in the New Millennium Music critics tend to move with ease from review to review, but it is often harder ...
Will the Real Pat Metheny Please Stand Up? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 05, 2008 · 0 comments Will the Real Pat Metheny Please Stand Up? Pat Metheny has not made it easy on casual jazz fans. Generally, the j...
Searching for Cool New Music – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 14, 2008 · 0 comments Searching for Cool New Music Jazz.com published it’s 1,600th review earlier today, With 400 reviews added to the s...
Where Did Our Revolution Go? Free Jazz Turns Fifty – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 25, 2008 · 4 comments Where Did Our Revolution Go? Free Jazz Turns Fifty PART ONE (OF THREE PARTS) The highlight of the Portland Jazz F...
Jazz Report from Estonia – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 20, 2008 · 0 comments Jazz Report from Estonia Our bloggers must suffer from chronic wanderlust. They have reported on recent jazz happenings...
The Monterey Jazz Festival Photography of Ron Hudson – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 18, 2008 · 0 comments The Monterey Jazz Festival Photography of Ron Hudson Danny Barker at the Monterey Jazz Festival ...
Capitol Records and the Golden Age of Pop Music – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 27, 2008 · 10 comments Capitol Records and the Golden Age of Pop Music At the mid-point of the 20th century, pop music was in ascendancy, and ...
The Saga of Taylor Eigsti: A Jazz Prodigy Grows Up – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 11, 2008 · 0 comments The Saga of Taylor Eigsti: A Jazz Prodigy Grows Up I first heard about Taylor Eigsti (rhymes with iced tea) around the t...
Jazz and Cartoons: The Secret History – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
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Mystery Photos – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 29, 2008 · 0 comments Mystery Photos Marcel Fleiss, whose photographs of New York and Paris jazz life graced the pages of Le Jazz Hot in the 19...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 29, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup As regular visitors to this site know, jazz.com takes a different approach to reviewing mu...
The Runion island Sound Comes to New York – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 06, 2008 · 3 comments The Runion island Sound Comes to New York Meddy Gerville is a fascinating artist who is developing his own unique appro...
Latin in Manhattan: The Sounds of Brazil – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 28, 2008 · 2 comments Latin in Manhattan: The Sounds of Brazil Jazz.com regular Eugene Marlow, who recently covered Dave Douglas and Bobby ...
How Bass Solos Ruined Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 19, 2008 · 135 comments How Bass Solos Ruined Jazz What's wrong with jazz? Could it be that unwieldy string instrument hiding out next to th...
How Bass Solos Ruined Jazz – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog May 19, 2008 · 95 comments How Bass Solos Ruined Jazz What's wrong with jazz? Could it be that unwieldy string instrument hiding out next to the...
How Bass Solos Ruined Jazz – Jazz.com
The Jazz.com Blog May 19, 2008 · 80 comments How Bass Solos Ruined Jazz What's wrong with jazz? Could it be that unwieldy string instrument hiding out next to the...
Elvis and Jazz A Cautionary Tale – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 26, 2008 · 12 comments Elvis and Jazz A Cautionary Tale Alan Kurtz, jazz.com's resident curmudgeon (who recently in this column has lobbed a...
Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 08, 2008 · 0 comments Weekend Track Review Roundup Jazz.coms team of hard-nosed critics never rest. Below are links to some of the reviews p...
Conversations With Myself – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 21, 2008 · 0 comments Conversations With Myself It's usually a bad sign when you start talking to yourself — but I can at least claim a jazz ...
Brooklyn Remembers Max Roach – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 04, 2008 · 0 comments Brooklyn Remembers Max Roach Tim Wilkins contributes this first hand account of a tribute to the late Max Roach, part of...
The Dollar Declines Overseas . . . And U.S. Jazz Does the Same – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 15, 2008 · 1 comment The Dollar Declines Overseas . . . And U.S. Jazz Does the Same Paris-based jazz critic Thierry Qunum, a frequent contri...
Could Chet Baker Play Jazz? (Part One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 12, 2008 · 1 comment Could Chet Baker Play Jazz? (Part One) This week marks the 20th anniversary of Chet Baker's death after his apparent fall...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Goes Global – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 02, 2008 · 2 comments Jazz at Lincoln Center Goes Global Tim Wilkins contributes this review of last Fridays concert featuring pianist Chano D...
Chet's Children: The Legacy of a Fallen Jazz Star – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 13, 2008 · 3 comments Chet's Children: The Legacy of a Fallen Jazz Star Today is the twentieth anniversary of Chet Baker's death from an appar...
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The Jazz.com Blog May 05, 2008 · 0 comments The Future Stars of European Jazz Stuart Nicholson must be the most indefatigable traveler among current jazz critics....
Jazz's New Gold Standard: More Bull Than Bullion – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 14, 2008 · 1 comment Jazz's New Gold Standard: More Bull Than Bullion Is jazz experiencing a new golden age? Certainly one journalist thinks ...
Putting Queens on the Jazz Map – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 22, 2008 · 1 comment Putting Queens on the Jazz Map The jazz.com bloggers are a cosmopolitan bunch. They have recently given us the lowdown...
Miles' New Band . . . 50 Years Later – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 25, 2008 · 2 comments Miles' New Band . . . 50 Years Later Miles Davis, artwork by Michael Symonds Fifty years ago today, Miles Davis...
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The Jazz.com Blog September 27, 2009 · 1 comment A Forgotten 1959 Masterpiece The folks at Sony have worked overtime on promoting anniversary reissues this yea...
Can Robert Glasper Unite Jazz and Hip-Hop Fans? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 09, 2009 · 0 comments Can Robert Glasper Unite Jazz and Hip-Hop Fans? Jared Pauley spurred some heated dialogue and debate with an artic...
Three Cheers for the University of the Streets – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 07, 2009 · 0 comments Three Cheers for the University of the Streets Jared Pauley, an editor and regular contributor to jazz.com, rece...
The Best of the Recent Releases – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 29, 2009 · 0 comments The Best of the Recent Releases According to my non-scientific estimate, between 2,000 and 3,000 jazz CDs will ...
Ron Carter, Mulgrew Miller and Russell Malone in DC – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 16, 2009 · 0 comments Ron Carter, Mulgrew Miller and Russell Malone in DC Michael J. West, a regular contributor to jazz.com, reports be...
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The Jazz.com Blog September 01, 2009 · 0 comments Keeping Track of 1,144,341 Jazz Tunes Will Friedwald has contributed a series of articles to jazz.com focusing on ...
Regina Carter at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Regina Carter at Tanglewood Half ethnomusicology lecture, half concert, Regina Carter's performance was signifi...
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The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Paquito DRivera at Tanglewood Conversations with Cachao, commissioned when D'Rivera was composer-in-residence a...
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The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Evgeny Lebedev at Tanglewood On the piano and musical continuum, you couldn't get much farther away from boogie ...
John Pizzarelli at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments John Pizzarelli at Tanglewood Owing either to the weather (gorgeous); the format (pleasant and amusing); h...
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at Tanglewood This sixteen-piece big band is the current iteration of the original T...
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The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Jazz Café - Emerging Talent at Tanglewood This large tent, whose irregular tuffets resemble the sails of a surrea...
Dave Holland at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Dave Holland at Tanglewood If ever the phrase “last but not least” was fitting, this concert applies. Last act o...
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The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Benny Reid at Tanglewood This young alto player, poised to release his second CD “Escaping Shadows” on Septem...
Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller at Tanglewood Facing each other on nine-foot grands, these two pianists played ...
Michael Kaeshammer at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Michael Kaeshammer at Tanglewood Unlike Benny Reid, who was tense before going on, and whose serious-faced ba...
Kat Edmonson at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Kat Edmonson at Tanglewood Kat Edmondson sings with ingenue sex appeal and emotional sophistication, which wa...
Dreaming the Duke at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Dreaming the Duke at Tanglewood Pairing classical soprano Harolyn Blackwell and jazz singer Nnenna Freelon i...
Jon Faddis, Wallace Roney, and Sean Jones A Triumph of Trumpets at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Jon Faddis, Wallace Roney, and Sean Jones A Triumph of Trumpets at Tanglewood Hosted by Jon Faddis, the concert ...
Ben Powell at Tanglewood – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 2009 · 0 comments Ben Powell at Tanglewood With a lovely tone, sophisticated lyricism, and a wonderful sense of swing on classic...
Day One at Monterey – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 19, 2009 · 0 comments Day One at Monterey Pamela Espeland, who writes on jazz for MinnPost.com and her own blog Bebopified, is sending ...
The Jazz Party in Vail – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 08, 2009 · 0 comments The Jazz Party in Vail For his Labor Day weekend getaway, Thomas Cunniffe traveled to Vail for the 15th annual Jazz...
Day Two at Monterey – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 21, 2009 · 0 comments Day Two at Monterey Pamela Espeland, who writes on jazz for MinnPost.com and her own blog Bebopified, continues h...
No Big Macs for Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 23, 2009 · 2 comments No Big Macs for Jazz As seasoned readers of this space may recollect, perhaps with a shudder, jazz.com's version of...
The Secret Jazz Festivals – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 15, 2009 · 0 comments The Secret Jazz Festivals This may be the best kept secret in jazz. Most jazz fans have never heard of the jazz sh...
Twenty Jazz Lives – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 03, 2009 · 0 comments Twenty Jazz Lives Unless you dig into the deep recesses of this web site, you might miss the Encyclopedia of Jazz ...
Duane Allman: A Rock Visionary on the Cusp of Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 02, 2009 · 0 comments Duane Allman: A Rock Visionary on the Cusp of Jazz Bill Barnes, a regular contributor to jazz.com, recalls some mem...
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The Artistry of George Russell (Part 1) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 05, 2009 · 0 comments The Artistry of George Russell (Part 1) Jeff Sultanof is our resident expert on arranging and composing at jazz.com...
The Artistry of George Russell (Part 2) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 14, 2009 · 0 comments The Artistry of George Russell (Part 2) A few days ago, jazz.com published part one of Jeff Sultanof's overview of ...
Day Three at Monterey – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 22, 2009 · 0 comments Day Three at Monterey Pamela Espeland, who writes on jazz for MinnPost.com and her own blog Bebopified, concludes...
Julian Lage in Boston – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog September 25, 2009 · 0 comments Julian Lage in Boston Boston-based Roanna Forman set the house record a few days back by sending us 14 reviews from...
The Anatomy of a Jazz Festival – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 09, 2009 · 0 comments The Anatomy of a Jazz Festival Below we conclude Stuart Nicholsons two-part article on the inner workings of the Mol...
How We Got to Be Cool – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 11, 2009 · 0 comments How We Got to Be Cool Im still a little fuzzy on how I became an authority on acting cool. But sometimes one simply...
Why Jazz Fans Should Avoid Illegal Substances – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 24, 2009 · 0 comments Why Jazz Fans Should Avoid Illegal Substances What if your great moment in jazz arrived, and you slept through it. ...
Inside View of a Jazz Success Story – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 03, 2009 · 2 comments Inside View of a Jazz Success Story Stuart Nicholson looks at the inner workings of one of the most successful jazz ...
Anita O'Day on DVD – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog November 14, 2009 · 3 comments Anita O'Day on DVD Thomas Cunniffe covers the world of DVDs for jazz.com. His most recent review here looked at Cha...
1,000 Jazz Gigs in Copenhagen – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 20, 2009 · 0 comments 1,000 Jazz Gigs in Copenhagen Jazz.com is delighted to add Larry Appelbaum to its roster of bloggers. A distinguished ...
A 1959 Jazz Playlist – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 09, 2009 · 0 comments A 1959 Jazz Playlist As regular site visitors know, we occasionally feature a batch of track reviews in this column—high...
Ugly News on the Jazz Audience – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 07, 2009 · 1 comment Ugly News on the Jazz Audience A few days ago, the National Endowment for the Arts published the summary findings of its...
Meeting Big Joe Turner (Part 2) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 29, 2009 · 0 comments Meeting Big Joe Turner (Part 2) Below is the second (and final) installment of Walter Koloskys account of a memorable en...
Nurturing Jazz in a Tough Town – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 06, 2009 · 0 comments Nurturing Jazz in a Tough Town Willard Jenkins continues his investigations of successful grassroots jazz programs aroun...
Record Labels Go For the Soft, Personal Touch – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 17, 2009 · 0 comments Record Labels Go For the Soft, Personal Touch The folks at Universal Music have finally figured out why their sales are...
How to Keep a Festival Afloat – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
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Tony Bennett and Diana Krall on DVD – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 21, 2009 · 0 comments Tony Bennett and Diana Krall on DVD Thomas Cunniffe, an editor and regular contributor at jazz.com, reports on two DVDs ...
Random Jazz Notes . . . and a Badly Burned High D – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 23, 2009 · 0 comments Random Jazz Notes . . . and a Badly Burned High D Jared Pauleys article on the history of the Fender Rhodes electric ...
Jazz Report from Montreal – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 15, 2009 · 0 comments Jazz Report from Montreal Jazz.coms arnold jay smith has been to the Montreal Jazz Festival so many times, he lost count...
The Detectives of Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 03, 2009 · 1 comment The Detectives of Jazz Will Friedwald continues his series on jazz discographers below. Your software spellchecker may ...
Meeting Big Joe Turner (Part 1) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 12, 2009 · 0 comments Meeting Big Joe Turner (Part 1) Walter Kolosky, who recently contributed an article on Dexter Gordon in this column, sha...
Hentoff on Jazz: A Different Kind of Jazz Outreach Program – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 13, 2009 · 0 comments Hentoff on Jazz: A Different Kind of Jazz Outreach Program In a recent contribution to this column, Nat Hentoff looked ...
A Jazz Fest That Puts Jazz First – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog July 05, 2009 · 0 comments A Jazz Fest That Puts Jazz First While many US jazz festivals are canceled or eliminate jazz from their program, Europea...
ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame Honors New Inductees – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 20, 2009 · 1 comment ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame Honors New Inductees Its hard keeping up with arnold jay smith. In addition to covering the Jazz...
JJA Awards at Jazz Standard – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 18, 2009 · 8 comments JJA Awards at Jazz Standard The annual awards ceremony of the Jazz Journalists Association, which took place on Tuesday,...
Diana Krall at Carnegie Hall – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 27, 2009 · 0 comments Diana Krall at Carnegie Hall Will Friedwald brings to his music criticism a deep knowledge of the American jazz and pop...
DVD Roundup: Rewriting the History of European Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 09, 2009 · 1 comment DVD Roundup: Rewriting the History of European Jazz Thomas Cunniffe, an editor and regular contributor at jazz.com, keep...
15 Righteous CDs Released So Far This Year – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 11, 2009 · 1 comment 15 Righteous CDs Released So Far This Year You probably need to update your wardrobe. Sorry, I cant help you with that. ...
Trumpet Heaven – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 07, 2009 · 1 comment Trumpet Heaven What happens when you fill up the stage with trumpeters, and put lots more in the audience? Michael J. W...
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The Jazz.com Blog June 29, 2009 · 9 comments More on Late Period Bill Evans A few days back I wrote an piece in this column entitled "Late Period Bill Evans: Genius...
Hentoff on Jazz: The Healing Touch – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 16, 2009 · 1 comment Hentoff on Jazz: The Healing Touch Nat Hentoff is a regular contributor to jazz.com. His recent articles here include a ...
Late Period Bill Evans: Genius or Decline? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 17, 2009 · 22 comments Late Period Bill Evans: Genius or Decline? Here is a jazz paradox. Most great jazz artists make their best music bef...
The King of Swing at 100 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 01, 2009 · 2 comments The King of Swing at 100 Don't be fooled by the lower case name. Everything else about arnold jay smith deserves to b...
Rust Never Sleeps – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 10, 2009 · 7 comments Rust Never Sleeps Will Friedwald recently offered some reflections in this column on the arcane world of jazz discograp...
Michael Jackson (1958-2009): A View from the Jazz Camp – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 26, 2009 · 14 comments Michael Jackson (1958-2009): A View from the Jazz Camp Michael Jackson, for all his considerable talents, never enjoye...
Steve Kuhn in Boston – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 08, 2009 · 1 comment Steve Kuhn in Boston Roanna Forman, who covers the Boston jazz scene for jazz.com, reports below on a performance by an...
The Best Tracks of the Month – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 30, 2009 · 0 comments The Best Tracks of the Month Five times every week, jazz.com features an outstanding recent track on its home page as...
Jazz Stars Gather to Celebrate Jazz Forum – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 24, 2009 · 2 comments Jazz Stars Gather to Celebrate Jazz Forum The jazz stars were out in full force at Jazz at Lincoln Centers Frederick Ros...
Gary Burton & Pat Metheny Perform at Berklee – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 23, 2009 · 0 comments Gary Burton & Pat Metheny Perform at Berklee Roanna Forman, who covers the Boston jazz scene for jazz.com, recently ...
Born on the 4th of June – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 04, 2009 · 0 comments Born on the 4th of June In this country, you get bragging rights if you were born on the Fourth of July—not to mention...
Musicians and Bad Reviews – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 15, 2009 · 5 comments Musicians and Bad Reviews Chris Kelsey is an editor and frequent reviewer at jazz.com. His articles in this column incl...
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The Jazz.com Blog June 03, 2009 · 0 comments RSS Feed for Jazz.com Now Available A number of site visitors have requested a RSS feed for jazz.com. I am happy to ann...
Who Cares About Old Jazz? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 03, 2009 · 8 comments Who Cares About Old Jazz? Ethan Iverson has spurred an interesting web debate on how well younger musicians know the ja...
The Strange Case of Nat King Cole – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 02, 2009 · 3 comments The Strange Case of Nat King Cole It is simply not true that Alan Kurtz listens to recordings just to count the mistakes...
How I Learned I Was a Jazz Fan – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 05, 2009 · 13 comments How I Learned I Was a Jazz Fan People sometimes ask me how I became interested in jazz. In my case, there was an el...
Jazz Survival 101 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 14, 2009 · 1 comment Jazz Survival 101 Eugene Marlow, a regular contributor to these virtual pages, looks at how the current economic climate ...
Remembering Charlie Mariano (1923-2009) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 22, 2009 · 9 comments Remembering Charlie Mariano (1923-2009) Saxophonist Charlie Mariano, who passed away in Germany last week at age 85, w...
Why France Pays for a Jazz Festival in Germany – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog June 25, 2009 · 3 comments Why France Pays for a Jazz Festival in Germany American jazz fans, who are mourning the loss of so many jazz instituti...
The Tragedy of Richard Twardzik (Part One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 20, 2009 · 2 comments The Tragedy of Richard Twardzik (Part One) The Eisenhower years, so Miltown-ized on much of the home front, were tur...
Remembering Jan Savitt (Part One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 18, 2009 · 1 comment Remembering Jan Savitt (Part One) Few jazz critics know big band music better than Jeff Sultanof, a regular contributo...
Benny Golson at the Kennedy Center (Reviewed by David Tenenholtz) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 27, 2009 · 0 comments Benny Golson at the Kennedy Center (Reviewed by David Tenenholtz) Without Benny Golsons gifts, hard-bop would have e...
Benny Golson at the Kennedy Center (Reviewed by Michael J. West) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 27, 2009 · 1 comment Benny Golson at the Kennedy Center (Reviewed by Michael J. West) The Eisenhower Theater is the smallest on the main f...
The James Brown of Africa (Part One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 11, 2009 · 2 comments The James Brown of Africa (Part One) My CD collection includes some cherished disks by a band called Franco & Le TPO...
A Giants Steps: John Coltrane on Atlantic (Part One) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 07, 2009 · 0 comments A Giants Steps: John Coltrane on Atlantic (Part One) Chris Kelsey, an editor and regular contributor to jazz.com, rec...
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The Jazz.com Blog January 29, 2009 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month Regular visitors to our domain—I just love the sound of that word; makes me feel li...
Sonny Rollins, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Lennie Tristano on DVD – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 06, 2009 · 2 comments Sonny Rollins, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Lennie Tristano on DVD Thomas Cunniffe is an erudite commentator on matters...
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The Jazz.com Blog January 28, 2009 · 0 comments Pat Martino at Sculler's Roanna Forman covers the Boston jazz scene for jazz.com. Her recent articles here have incl...
Jazz Fans, Show Us Your Tattoos – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 01, 2009 · 6 comments Jazz Fans, Show Us Your Tattoos Here at jazz.com, we pride ourselves on tackling the delicate questions you always w...
Exposed: The Plot to Keep Jazz Down! – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 19, 2009 · 3 comments Exposed: The Plot to Keep Jazz Down! Jazz.com refuses to report on Elvis sightings, abductions by aliens or evidenc...
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The Jazz.com Blog January 26, 2009 · 3 comments Joshua Redmans Double Trio in Concert Joshua Redman released his latest CD Compass on January 13, and is featuring th...
Remembering Jan Savitt (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 21, 2009 · 0 comments Remembering Jan Savitt (Part Two) Below Jeff Sultanof continues his re-examination of the music of bandleader Jan Sav...
Help Jazz by Helping David – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 24, 2009 · 0 comments Help Jazz by Helping David Jazz writer James Hale posts on his blog that tenor saxophonist David S. Ware needs ...
New Jazz Bios: From Buddy Bolden to Sun Ra – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 15, 2009 · 0 comments New Jazz Bios: From Buddy Bolden to Sun Ra Hidden away in the inner recesses of jazz.com is our ambitious Encyclope...
When the Best Singing Piano Man Was a Woman – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 03, 2009 · 2 comments When the Best Singing Piano Man Was a Woman Few critics have a more nuanced understanding of the vocal arts than Will...
5 Lessons Today's Jazz Labels Could Learn From Blue Note – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 12, 2009 · 7 comments 5 Lessons Today's Jazz Labels Could Learn From Blue Note I hate to spoil a birthday party. But the current celebr...
James Carter in Boston – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 13, 2009 · 0 comments James Carter in Boston Neither snow nor rain nor a two drink minimum can prevent Roanna Forman from covering the Bost...
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The Jazz.com Blog January 05, 2009 · 2 comments Jazz Singing Versus Cabaret Singing There are many hidden fault lines in the music worldconflicts between styles not ...
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The Jazz.com Blog January 14, 2009 · 0 comments The Master of Congolese Guitar (Part Two) Below is the second installment of my two-part article on Franco and TPOK J...
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The Jazz.com Blog January 25, 2009 · 7 comments Milli-men March on Washington Last week, after watching history unfold on live TV, jazz.com's resident curmudgeon w...
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James P.'s Last Rent Party – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 06, 2009 · 5 comments James P.'s Last Rent Party I can't remember the last time pre-WW2 jazz created such a buzz. But the Last Rent Party ...
The Birth (and Death) of the Cool – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 28, 2009 · 0 comments The Birth (and Death) of the Cool This week marks the publication of my new book, The Birth (and Death) of the Cool...
Danilo Perez in Boston – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 01, 2009 · 1 comment Danilo Perez in Boston Roanna Forman, a regular contributor to this column, recently reported on guitarist Julian Lag...
A Jazz Success Story in Vermont – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 19, 2009 · 2 comments A Jazz Success Story in Vermont Willard Jenkins continues his series on grassroots jazz organizations in the US with ...
Hentoff on Jazz: The Jewish Soul of Willie "The Lion" Smith – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 08, 2009 · 11 comments Hentoff on Jazz: The Jewish Soul of Willie "The Lion" Smith Nat Hentoff, a regular contributor to this col...
The Best Tracks of the Month – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 31, 2009 · 0 comments The Best Tracks of the Month Five days per week, jazz.com highlights an oustanding recent track as part of its Song...
Guitar Hero, Jazz Style – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 24, 2009 · 2 comments Guitar Hero, Jazz Style Bill Barnes concludes his three-part article on the role of guitar in jazz below. Click here...
Come to Our Gallery Opening – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 15, 2009 · 0 comments Come to Our Gallery Opening We can't offer any wine or cheese, but we do invite you to attend our gallery opening. J...
The Once and Future Strings (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 12, 2009 · 1 comment The Once and Future Strings (Part Two) Bill Barnes continues his three-part article on the role of guitar in jazz belo...
The Once and Future Strings – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog October 05, 2009 · 6 comments The Once and Future Strings When electric guitar first showed up in the jazz world, most fans treated it as a novelty...
A Fitting Epitaph to Mingus's Big Score – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 18, 2009 · 0 comments A Fitting Epitaph to Mingus's Big Score When jazz fans discuss the really big compositions of the past, a small number...
The Disciples of Lester Young: A Recommended Playlist – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 27, 2009 · 0 comments The Disciples of Lester Young: A Recommended Playlist I was in my 20s, and giving a lecture on Lester Young to a larg...
Litchfield's Makeshift Festival – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 09, 2009 · 0 comments Litchfield's Makeshift Festival With a population of fewer than 9,000 souls, Litchfield, CT is not the most obvious pl...
If the Music Industry Manged Our Healthcare . . . – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 11, 2009 · 0 comments If the Music Industry Manged Our Healthcare . . . Sometimes the music world has a solution to share . . . and not ju...
Jazz Outreach in Harlem – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 16, 2009 · 0 comments Jazz Outreach in Harlem Willard Jenkins has investigated a series of of successful grassroots jazz programs around the...
A Batch of Track Reviews – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 06, 2009 · 0 comments A Batch of Track Reviews As regular visitors to the site know, jazz.com reviews individual tracks not entire CDs. A t...
Blues Notes from All Over – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 17, 2009 · 0 comments Blues Notes from All Over Even if you haven’t heard of Jim Dickinson, who passed away on Saturday at age 67, you have...
100,000 Fans Flock to Small Town Jazz Festival (Hint: Not in the US) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 10, 2009 · 0 comments 100,000 Fans Flock to Small Town Jazz Festival (Hint: Not in the US) In a series of articles in this column, Stuart Ni...
How Jazz is Funded in France (Part 1) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 19, 2009 · 0 comments How Jazz is Funded in France (Part 1) Many US jazz fans wonder where all the money comes from to support the thousands...
The Best New Music of the Month – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 31, 2009 · 0 comments The Best New Music of the Month Five days per week, jazz.com highlights an outstanding track from a recent release a...
Steely Dan in Los Angeles – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 30, 2009 · 0 comments Steely Dan in Los Angeles Steely Dan was once the ultimate studio band. But now they are a seasoned road troupe in t...
Jazz's Guardian Angel – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 24, 2009 · 0 comments Jazz's Guardian Angel Nat Hentoff, a regular contributor to this column, writes below about that greatest of rarities:...
Stolen Moments with Mark Murphy – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 04, 2009 · 0 comments Stolen Moments with Mark Murphy The fans of singer Mark Murphy were justifiably alarmed when a recent email went the ...
Remembering Don Ellis (Part 2) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 03, 2009 · 1 comment Remembering Don Ellis (Part 2) Jeff Sultanof continues his look at the innovative bandleader Don Ellis in the second an...
Summer Jazz in Paris – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 12, 2009 · 0 comments Summer Jazz in Paris Anyone who keeps tabs on the thriving jazz scene in Europe can't help comparing the diversity and...
Remembering Don Ellis (Part 1) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 02, 2009 · 0 comments Remembering Don Ellis (Part 1) On any short list of exciting, innovative bandleaders of the 1960s, Don Ellis deserves ...
Lives of the Great Trombonists – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 13, 2009 · 0 comments Lives of the Great Trombonists A few days ago, one of the music discussion forums mulled over whether the trombone is...
More Amazing Jazz Tattoos! – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 05, 2009 · 0 comments More Amazing Jazz Tattoos! Some months back, I devoted this space to a celebration of jazz tattoos. (Check it out he...
Why Lester Young Matters – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 22, 2009 · 0 comments Why Lester Young Matters Lester Young, whose 100th birthday will be celebrated on Thursday, exerted far more influenc...
Feinstein's Opens Its Doors to Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog August 25, 2009 · 0 comments Feinstein's Opens Its Doors to Jazz Eugene Marlow, a regular contributor to this column who recently wrote about voca...
The Next Young Lions: 6 Players Who Could be Future Stars – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 07, 2009 · 0 comments The Next Young Lions: 6 Players Who Could be Future Stars Jazz fans are restless types, and always looking for next new...
Nat Hentoff: At the Constitutional Jazz Band Ball – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 16, 2009 · 2 comments Nat Hentoff: At the Constitutional Jazz Band Ball Nat Hentoff recently joined on as contributor to jazz.comyou can che...
The Rise and Fall of the Clarinet (Part 1) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 06, 2009 · 14 comments The Rise and Fall of the Clarinet (Part 1) The clarinet was once the dominant instrument in jazz, literally defining t...
Cyrus Chestnut in Boston – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 28, 2009 · 2 comments Cyrus Chestnut in Boston Roanna Forman serves as jazz.com's "ears on the ground" in Boston. She recently reported in t...
In which your intrepid blogger covers Bennie Maupin, Brahms, some ugly pipes, and the role of the Internet. . . – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 01, 2009 · 1 comment In which your intrepid blogger covers Bennie Maupin, Brahms, some ugly pipes, and the role of the Internet. . . Mark S...
Extreme Jazz in Vossa – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 19, 2009 · 2 comments Extreme Jazz in Vossa Stuart Nicholson continues in his quest to cover more jazz events in more countries than any ot...
Grady Tate in Harlem – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 26, 2009 · 0 comments Grady Tate in Harlem The jazz world has dealt with a lot of bad news in recent months. Hardly a week goes by without...
If There Were an American Idol Competition for Jazz Singers . . . – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 08, 2009 · 4 comments If There Were an American Idol Competition for Jazz Singers . . . While the rest of the world is taking odds on who wi...
The Mexican Connection: Charles Mingus & Orson Welles – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 21, 2009 · 6 comments The Mexican Connection: Charles Mingus & Orson Welles Alan Kurtz, jazz.com's resident curmudgeon, shares his thoug...
Remembering Bud Shank (1926-2009) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 04, 2009 · 5 comments Remembering Bud Shank (1926-2009) The last time I talked to Bud Shank was in November 2007 at a conference on West Coa...
Taking Two Saxes for a Test Drive – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 15, 2009 · 0 comments Taking Two Saxes for a Test Drive Blimey, how can we write so much about saxophonists, and never talk about saxes? Chr...
Jerry Bergonzi at the Acton Jazz Café – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 12, 2009 · 3 comments Jerry Bergonzi at the Acton Jazz Café Roanna Forman, who covers the Boston jazz scene for jazz.com, recently reported i...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Earshot Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 02, 2009 · 1 comment The Agony and the Ecstasy of Earshot Jazz Jazz.com is delighted to welcome Willard Jenkins as a contributor to the site....
The Borough Where Jazz Lives – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 13, 2009 · 1 comment The Borough Where Jazz Lives Tim Wilkins edits the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians here at jazz.com, and regularly contri...
The Rise and Fall of the Clarinet (Part 2) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog April 14, 2009 · 22 comments The Rise and Fall of the Clarinet (Part 2) What happened to the clarinet? It once was the defining instrument of jazz...
Jack Kerouac and Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 18, 2009 · 8 comments Jack Kerouac and Jazz For better or worse, the leaders of the Beat Generation, and especially Jack Kerouac, are inextri...
Kahil El’Zabar in DC – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 09, 2009 · 0 comments Kahil El’Zabar in DC Michael J. West, a regular contributor to these pages, recently covered Oliver Lake and Benny Gol...
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Nat Hentoff on Jazz: Saving Jazz, One Musician at a Time – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 07, 2009 · 2 comments Nat Hentoff on Jazz: Saving Jazz, One Musician at a Time A few weeks back, Nat Hentoff joined on as a new contributor ...
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The Bad Plus in Washington, DC – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 29, 2009 · 0 comments The Bad Plus in Washington, DC David Tenenholtz recently reported here on a Duke Ellington tribute concert and Benny ...
Jazz.com's New Expert Translator – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 16, 2009 · 2 comments Jazz.com's New Expert Translator Alan Kurtz, our web site's resident curmudgeon, recently dropped an uncharacteristic...
Dorothy Donegan Revisited – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 17, 2009 · 0 comments Dorothy Donegan Revisited More than a decade has passed since the death of pianist extraordinaire Dorothy Donegan. She...
Oliver Lake at Twins – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 01, 2009 · 0 comments Oliver Lake at Twins Michael J. West, a regular contributor to these pages, recently shared his thoughts on Benny Gols...
Winterjazz in the Baltic Sea – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 10, 2009 · 4 comments Winterjazz in the Baltic Sea No jazz critic travels more miles . . . well, kilometers in this case . . . to hear new j...
Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 19, 2009 · 0 comments Track Review Roundup We continue in our noble if quixotic quest to review all of the great and almost great tracks in t...
The Best of the Dozens – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 26, 2009 · 0 comments The Best of the Dozens Today jazz.com publishes the latest installment of its regular feature The Dozens. This article...
The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 31, 2009 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month Five days per week, jazz.com features an outstanding recent track as Song of the Day....
The Pianism of Denny Zeitlin (Part 2) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 30, 2009 · 0 comments The Pianism of Denny Zeitlin (Part 2) Below is the second installment of my two-part article on pianist Denny Zeitlin. ...
The Demise of Cachaça – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 24, 2009 · 7 comments The Demise of Cachaça Eugene Marlow, a regular contributor to these pages, looks at the recent closing of a Greenwich...
Jim Hall at the Library of Congress – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 23, 2009 · 1 comment Jim Hall at the Library of Congress Michael J. West, a regular contributor to jazz.com, has recently reported on perfor...
Not-So-Modest Mussorgsky in Moscow – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 04, 2009 · 0 comments Not-So-Modest Mussorgsky in Moscow Jazz.com tries to cover the whole world of jazz, and not just the famous players a...
Quincy Jones On (and Off) DVD – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 15, 2009 · 0 comments Quincy Jones On (and Off) DVD Thomas Cunniffe, an editor and regular contributor to these pages, is our resident expert...
The King of Western Swing (Part 3) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 03, 2009 · 3 comments The King of Western Swing (Part 3) Below is the third and final installment of my three-part article on Bob Wills and h...
Building the World's Largest Online Jazz Encyclopedia – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 12, 2009 · 0 comments Building the World's Largest Online Jazz Encyclopedia If I thought writing a blog was demanding, little did I guess ...
Mingus Summit and Competition at MSM – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 02, 2009 · 2 comments Mingus Summit and Competition at MSM The jazz economy is hurting, and hardly a day goes by without news of some festi...
The Jazz Photography of Richard Laird – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 05, 2009 · 4 comments The Jazz Photography of Richard Laird I have long been familiar with bassist Rick Lairds musical career, but his jazz p...
Denny Zeitlin on Mosaic (Part 1) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 22, 2009 · 1 comment Denny Zeitlin on Mosaic (Part 1) In the early 1980s, Gene Lees surveyed more than 60 jazz pianists to find out which ke...
Herbie Hancock and Ravi Shankar Hold East-West Musical Summit – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog March 25, 2009 · 2 comments Herbie Hancock and Ravi Shankar Hold East-West Musical Summit Brian Dwyer recently reported here on Jazz Utsav, a major...
The Best CDs of 2009 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 09, 2009 · 0 comments The Best CDs of 2009 I've been making a list, and checking it twice. Okay, I admit it, I made two lists, and only ...
Remembering Ray Brown (1926-2002) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 16, 2009 · 0 comments Remembering Ray Brown (1926-2002) In conjunction with Christian McBrides Guest Artist Dozens, focusing on classic tr...
The Great Frim-Fram Mystery – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog December 02, 2009 · 0 comments The Great Frim-Fram Mystery During his exhaustive research last June into "The Strange Case of Nat King Cole," jaz...
The King of Western Swing (Part 2) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 18, 2009 · 0 comments The King of Western Swing (Part 2) Below is the second installment of my three-part article on Bob Wills and his Tex...
Nat Hentoff on Jazz: Remembering Nesuhi Ertegun and Joel Dorn – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 09, 2009 · 8 comments Nat Hentoff on Jazz: Remembering Nesuhi Ertegun and Joel Dorn Jazz.com is delighted to introduce Nat Hentoff as a n...
The King of Western Swing (Part 1) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 11, 2009 · 3 comments The King of Western Swing (Part 1) Below is the first installment of my three-part article on Bob Wills, a pioneer i...
Brad Mehldau and Anne Sofie von Otter at Harvard – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 16, 2009 · 0 comments Brad Mehldau and Anne Sofie von Otter at Harvard Roanna Forman covers the Boston jazz scene for jazz.com. Her recen...
A Giant's Steps: John Coltrane on Atlantic (Part Three) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 17, 2009 · 0 comments A Giant's Steps: John Coltrane on Atlantic (Part Three) Fifty years ago this month, John Coltrane purchased a sopran...
The Tragedy of Richard Twardzik (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 01, 2009 · 6 comments The Tragedy of Richard Twardzik (Part Two) Below is the second (and final) installment of my article on Richard Twar...
If Charlie Christian Had Lived Until the Age of Fusion . . . – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 10, 2009 · 2 comments If Charlie Christian Had Lived Until the Age of Fusion . . . Most critics look at CDs that are, and ask why. But on...
Tracks 'r Us: A Sampler of 25 Recent Reviews – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 19, 2009 · 0 comments Tracks 'r Us: A Sampler of 25 Recent Reviews What a crazy idea! But somehow we got started on this project of re...
The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 26, 2009 · 2 comments The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month Jazz.com’s critics have reviewed close to 300 tracks during the last month, but...
Jazz's First Avant-Gardist – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 08, 2009 · 4 comments Jazz's First Avant-Gardist Half a century ago, Ornette Coleman bit into the Big Apple, turning the jazz world upsi...
Jimmy Heath Still On the Trail at 82 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 24, 2009 · 3 comments Jimmy Heath Still On the Trail at 82 Roanna Forman covers the Boston jazz scene for jazz.com. Her most recent revie...
New Jazz in London – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 23, 2009 · 1 comment New Jazz in London Thierry Qunum, a regular contributor to these pages, covers the jazz scene from his home base in P...
The Jazz World Loses Two Soulful Sax Masters – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 04, 2009 · 2 comments The Jazz World Loses Two Soulful Sax Masters Two much beloved jazz saxophonists passed away in recent daysDavid Fath...
Is the Jazz World Recession-Proof? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 15, 2009 · 7 comments Is the Jazz World Recession-Proof? That big elephant in the corner of the jazz club that no one is mentioning . ...
A Giant's Steps: John Coltrane on Atlantic (Part Two) – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 03, 2009 · 0 comments A Giant's Steps: John Coltrane on Atlantic (Part Two) Chris Kelsey, an editor and regular contributor to jazz.com, c...
Just Friend(U)s: Jazz.com Now Has a Facebook Page – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 12, 2009 · 0 comments Just Friend(U)s: Jazz.com Now Has a Facebook Page Yes, jazz.com now has a home-away-from-home at Facebook. And ea...
Jamie Baum at Joe's Pub – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 02, 2009 · 0 comments Jamie Baum at Joe's Pub Ralph Miriello, a regular contributor to jazz.com, recently selected flautist Jamie Baums n...
A Cappella Kind of Blue? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 22, 2009 · 0 comments A Cappella Kind of Blue? Tomas Pea has conducted more than twenty interviews for jazz.com since site launch in De...
Sonny Fortune in Greenwich – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 25, 2009 · 1 comment Sonny Fortune in Greenwich Ralph Miriello, a regular contributor to jazz.com, was on hand for a concert by Sonny For...
How to Build an Audience for Jazz – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 20, 2009 · 1 comment How to Build an Audience for Jazz Willard Jenkins is looking behind the scenes and talking to people who have found ways o...
Jane Monheit in Boston – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 18, 2009 · 5 comments Jane Monheit in Boston Roanna Forman covers the Boston scene for jazz.com. She recently reported in this column on perfo...
On Discography – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 27, 2009 · 7 comments On Discography If the jazz world is a subculture, then the most cultish members of all are the discographers. I would ...
Dexter Comes to Town – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 11, 2009 · 3 comments Dexter Comes to Town Jazz writers usually focus on the action on the stage, but Walter Kolosky recognizes that the music'...
Fifteen Tracks You Might Have Missed – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 07, 2009 · 0 comments Fifteen Tracks You Might Have Missed We have crammed so many track reviews into jazz.com's Intel® Quad-core XEON® Process...
Nat Hentoff on Jazz: Bringing Jazz Back into the Schools – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 16, 2009 · 1 comment Nat Hentoff on Jazz: Bringing Jazz Back into the Schools I might consider calling Nat Hentoff the dean of jazz writers, ...
Who is Grace Kelly? – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 06, 2009 · 10 comments Who is Grace Kelly? Who is Grace Kelly? I am not talking about the famous 1950s-era starlet (who became Princess G...
The Lives of the Jazz Greats – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 28, 2009 · 2 comments The Lives of the Jazz Greats Hidden behind the scenes of jazz.com, a team of writers has been working on building the wo...
The Tale of Two Jazz Careers – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 10, 2009 · 0 comments The Tale of Two Jazz Careers Thomas Cunniffe, an editor and regular contributor to jazz.com, is (among other things) our ...
Talking to Myself About the State of Jazz Music – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 19, 2009 · 26 comments Talking to Myself About the State of Jazz Music Almost a year ago, I was caught talking to myself in print. It's a w...
The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 31, 2009 · 0 comments The Best Jazz Tracks of the Month I want to emphasize: this is not nostalgia, Bobby Sanabria announces at the start ...
Reassessing Miles's Bitches Brew – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 04, 2009 · 6 comments Reassessing Miles's Bitches Brew Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is now almost forty years old. But this path-breaking album ...
Invitation to the Secret Society – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 12, 2009 · 0 comments Invitation to the Secret Society When I first heard the name Darcy James Argue, I was convinced it was a sly pseudonym. ...
Claude Thornhill at 100 – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 13, 2009 · 5 comments Claude Thornhill at 100 More than twenty years have elapsed since New York audiences have been able to hear the repertoi...
Afro-Cuba Meets Appalachia – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 05, 2009 · 0 comments Afro-Cuba Meets Appalachia Tim Wilkins edits the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians at jazz.com, and regularly contributes re...
The Jazz Art of Merryl Jaye – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 14, 2009 · 0 comments The Jazz Art of Merryl Jaye Regular visitors to the jazz.com know that we like to feature the work of visual artists, an...
Time to Check Out Hiromi – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 25, 2009 · 0 comments Time to Check Out Hiromi Last week, Boston-based Roanna Forman reported on Jane Monheit in this column. Now she shares h...
The State of Jazz in Harlem – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog May 25, 2009 · 4 comments The State of Jazz in Harlem Jared Pauley is an editor and regular contributor to jazz.com. Below he looks at the current...
The Jazz Detective at Work – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog January 06, 2010 · 0 comments The Jazz Detective at Work Will Friedwald has written several articles in this column about the great jazz detectives...
Highlights of the Jazz.com Blog – Jazz.com | Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News
The Jazz.com Blog February 08, 2010 · 0 comments Highlights of the Jazz.com Blog Below are links to some of the highlights from the jazz.com blog. Life on t...