Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery was called the best player since Charlie Christian. Praise doesn’t get any higher in that part of the world. Here is the...
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Sidney Bechet, one of the giants of early jazz, wanted to lead. Bechet, like fellow jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton, was a Creole of Color. A couple of good...
Fun and well produced video for sort of a holiday afternoon. Here is the band’s website.
I remember listening to Ornette Coleman many years ago and deciding, simply, that it wasn’t for me. I didn’t get it. In a lot of instances I still...
Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton was a New Orleans-born “Creole of color” who is considered to be one of the most important figures in...
Editor’s Note: From time to time, The Daily Music Break re-posts older content. Alex Welsh and Fred Hunt’s version of Davenport Blues is haunting...
Hello, thanks for stopping by. There is no better place to start anything than with Louis Armstrong. Here he is supporting Dizzy Gillespie. Armstrong was the...
