One of the challenges of exploring new musical genres is that an individual may have no context. Imagine someone listening for the first time to The Beatles...
Category - Jazz
The videos of the great Aretha Franklin that have been posted at various places since her passing last week tell a fascinating story. The videos are great...
Second up on The Daily Music Break’s random Independence Day list of great American musicians and bands is Dr. John. Malcolm John Rebennack was born in New...
Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller was a riot, a great musician, the prototype of the vested fat stride piano player and an important figure in the...
The Daily Music Break has been around long enough to have a tradition. This is roughly the third iteration of the site. The style has gone from bad to okay to...
New York has a lot of great music radio stations. Three of the finest are WBGO (a jazz station that actually is in Newark), WKCR and WFUV (the radio stations...
One of the great things about music is how a good song – or, more accurately, a good melody – can move freely between genres. It’s second nature, of...
Two things become apparent when taking a look at the life of Allen Toussaint (besides his talent and class): The amount of great music that New Orleans has...
Next week will mark the 80th anniversary of the day that jazz came in from the cold. On January 16, 1938, Benny Goodman brought jazz to Carnegie Hall in New...
Peggy Lee, one of the biggest stars of her generation, lived from May 26, 1920 to January 21, 2002. Born Norma Deloris Engstrom (sometimes Egstrom, according...
