Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery was called the best player since Charlie Christian. Praise doesn’t get any higher in that part of the world. Here is the...
Category - Jazz
I knew when I began looking for links to Bucky Pizzarelli that I would find tons of great jazz guitar. Though it is impossible to say so definitely without...
Red Norvo had to be good: Being called “Mr. Swing” in an era in which swing was king suggests a tremendous amount of respect (or an extraordinary...
Wikipedia does a great job of writing opening paragraphs that succinctly highlight the subject’s influence. This profile of the great jazz pianist Bill...
This is the beginning of the profile of the great tenor saxophone player Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins from his website: Theodore Walter Rollins...
Let me say this as delicately as possible: Conceptually and objectively, I understand that tastes are different. One man’s meat is another man’s...
Some people say that jazz is an acquired taste. If so, an avant-garde jazz trombonist — which is what Roswell Rudd is — is an advanced acquired...
In 1945, Duke Ellington recorded I’m Just a Lucky So and So. Check out Tony Bennett’s version, which is from “The Conan O’Brien...
The remarkable ability of New Orleans to produce trumpet (and cornet) players — which began with Buddy Bolden and reached its zenith with Louis Armstrong...
Like many people my age (and younger), my impressions of the world, for better or worse, are shaped by video. I was thoroughly convinced for years that World...
