This site celebrates Joe Pass. AllMusic does its usual nice job of profiling the great and iconic The jazz guitarist: Joe Pass did the near-impossible. He was...
Category - Jazz
It is impossible to listen to Save the Bones for Henry Jones (above) — especially as delivered by Reggie Houston — without smiling at this gentle...
The Cadaqués Orchestra
Dir. Vasily Petrenko
It’s against the spirit of jazz to focus too much on a single player, so we are leading off this post about Lionel Hampton with Avalon (above). It...
Louis Prima was a riot. And he was a riot that came came along at the perfect time. Whenever I hear this music, I think of what it must have been like to be in...
Sammy Davis Jr. remains a complicated topic. On one hand, he is one of the great talents of the 20th century. He was an amazing dancer — check out the...
Eartha Kitt would have been 86 years old today. Above, she sings I Want to Be Evil, in a video that has one odd camera angle after another. Here is more on the...
Like so many folks who had stellar careers and have been around forever, Tony Bennett’s early story is filled with familiar names: The young singer was...
Sarah Vaughan is one of the big three of classic female jazz singers, alongside Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Here is how the bio of “Sassy”...
Wikipedia leads its profile with a snapshot of Wayne Shorter’s importance: Jazz critic Ben Ratliff of the New York Times wrote that Shorter is...
