Click to hear “Mood Indigo” by Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard and Irving Mills. Everyone knows that jazz sounds great. It looks great, too. Perhaps...
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Jazz drummer Louie Bellson was born on this day in 1924. His full (long) given name suggests that he was born in Italy. Not so. Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco...
The Red Hot Jazz Archive calls Johnny Dodds one of he greatest clarinetists of the 1920s. The site says that two other greats of the day — Sidney Bechet...
Craig Harris at AllMusic offers a succinct bio of Wild Bill Davis, a of the jazz organ. Davis played the Hammond B3 and, according to Harris, “provided a...
The classic jazz community is celebrating the centennial of Ella Fitzgerald, who was born on April 25, 1917. Fitzgerald, along with Billie Holiday and Sarah...
The connections between country, blues and early jazz are clear. Where some forms of modern jazz fit in the the larger landscape is less clear. The key...
Last week, I posted a video on the Steely Dan song “Deacon Blues by a fellow named Nerdwriter (hopefully, not his real name). He wrote that an element in...
Music really is universal. “The Waters of March” (“Aguas de Marco”) is a beautiful samba or bossa nova song (I am unsure of the...
Johnny Hodges was a giant. Here is some of his profile at the Encyclopedia Britannica: Hodges played lead alto in Ellington’s sax section; his melody lines...
Nino Arobelidze is a good friend of The Daily Music Break. She’s a singer/song writer with a unique and fresh sound built on her childhood...
