The lack of Chick Webb video on YouTube is odd. There are quite a few items with photographs or album covers, but no real video. In any case, This Day In Jazz...
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It’s hard to write a brief post about John Coltrane that means much. His music is complex and challenging. Though it was just a bit more than a decade between...
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Benny Golson is important for more than his tenor sax playing. Golson — who still is active — was earlier in his career sought after for his...
One of the fun things about getting into music is learning about genres that are completely foreign (both literally and figuratively) to me. King Sunny Ade was...
H/T: Nino Arobelidze Jimmy Victor Scott was a unique, intense and highly emotive vocalist — but not a very lucky guy. He suffered from Kallmann’s...
Miles Davis was one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century. He was famously difficult to get alone with. Indeed, criminally so. This is from...
Today would have been the 114th birthday of Sy Oliver. Oliver is a very important figure, and a pioneer. This is from Wikipedia: In 1933, Oliver joined Jimmie...
The Modern Jazz Quartet wanted to swing and, at the same time, bridge the gap between jazz and classical music. The group had remarkable stability in its...
A couple of pretty important jazz folks celebrate birthdays this week. Paul Desmond was the alto saxophone player in Dave Brubeck’s Quartet. He wrote...
