It’s a shame how many great musicians don’t have much video — for any — of them actually playing. Seeing these greats is half the fun...
Category - Jazz
I heard this pretty song — “Melba’s Tune” — while driving the other night. I’m reasonably well acquainted with jazz, but...
Very pretty stuff. Blue Mitchell is on trumpet, Wynton Kelly on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Roy Brooks on bass. Here is more on Mitchell: Richard Allen “Blue”...
We are very lucky that there is a tremendous amount of video of Dr. John on YouTube, and I encourage everyone to check it all out. Most of it is very good...
Phil Schaap, the jazz historian and host of “Traditions in Swing” on Columbia University’s WKCR, dedicates a late December edition of the...
Nothing much to say about Ben Webster. The only thing to do is listen. The other players above, according to the notes at YouTube, are Stan Tracy on piano...
On the very short list of most important musicians ever. And, as is the case with people who change their field so radically, Sinatra’s influence went...
. I was introduced to John Yao, in a cyber sense, by Matt Panayides, a tremendous jazz guitarist whom I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing a couple of...
Jazz trombonist, guitarist, composer and arranger Eddie Durham was born on this day in 1906. An excerpt from Wikipedia’s profile: He was the co-composer...
I am not a critic or a musician, but think that the pure and clean tone of Hubert Laws is tremendous. Perhaps not quite as well known as Herbie Mann, Laws, who...
