My good friend MC Antil, who was nice enough to let me repost some of his insightful music commentary (here and here), this week posted a great appreciation of...
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Click to hear “Mood Indigo” by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard and Irving Mills. Everyone knows that jazz sounds great. It looks great, too. Perhaps...
Papa Jo Jones, one of the greatest jazz drummers, appears in the remarkable video above. It is part one of Louis Panassié’s “L’Aventure du...
Oscar Peterson is among the greatest jazz pianists. Many consider Art Tatum — as the excerpt below suggests — to be the best, while Peterson, Bud...
The song also is identified in the clip as The Kid From Red Bank. Basie was born in the New Jersey town in 1904. It certainly is a better title, unless there...
This morning, the site featured the great Big Joe Turner. One of the clips featured Jay McShann along with Turner. Here is more McShann. Kansas City has a...