There is no one true American music, of course. There are many: Blues, jazz, rock and roll and others. They blend into each other in unpredictable permutations...
Category - Jazz
Last month, I posted a query asking for new music at ProfNet, a site that links editors/reporters with sources. I intend to post everything that was sent my...
Jazz pianist Lennie Tristano is called an improvisational genius and groundbreaker — but one who was difficult to get along with, at least professionally...
Louis Jordan was brilliant, funny and one of the bridges from jazz to rock and roll. Check out the play list below. Here is the beginning of this profile at...
Henry Mancini, who wrote a lot of the background music of our lives, would have been ninety years old today. He died in 1994. The Henry Mancini website is...
Jon Herington on Steely Dan, playing across genres, guitarists he admires, running his own band and more: I spoke with Steely Dan guitarist Jon Herington via...
Here is new music from Nino Abrobelidze. This profile is from her website: Hailing from Tbilisi-Georgia, Nino Arobelidze moved to Chicago to make music and...
Five songs from Charlie Parker are at the bottom of this post. Charlie Parker’s innovations are complex and difficult to explain to non musicians. 8notes...
This Day In Jazz notes that today is the birthdays of Ben Webster and Sarah Vaughan. The great tenor sax player was born in 1909 and the vocalist in 1924. The...
A gentleman by the name of Leo T.Sullivan runs a series of small and eloquent Web pages dedicated to jazz greats. His tastes seem to trend toward...
