Broadway World had an item on Monday on a short film, Trane and Miles, that chronicles the making of Kind of Blue, which the story says is the best-selling...
Tag - jazz
The long and important life of Marian McPartland ended last week on Long Island, where the British native had lived for many years. McPartland was an important...
Richie Cannata, who has long been associated with Billy Joel — he was his sax player through 1982 — and more recently with The Beach Boys and...
Here is the start of The Washington Post’s obituary of George Duke: George Duke, a Grammy-winning keyboardist who crossed musical boundaries to play with...
The list of legendary trumpet players from the New Orleans area doesn’t begin or end with Louis Armstrong. Indeed, the list essentially is endless. Red...
Oscar Peterson is among the greatest jazz pianists. Many consider Art Tatum — as the excerpt below suggests — to be the best, while Peterson, Bud...
This is the first trombone player featured at TDMB. It’s nice that he is a next step in the proud tradition of New Orleans horn players. Indeed, he seems...
Visitors to New York should keep in mind that lots of great sites are outside of Manhattan. One of those is the Louis Armstrong House, which is in Corona...
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...
The great trumpeter was born on this day in 1922. He passed away in 1999. The clip of Java is from The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963.
