Wednesday, July 29, 2020

CDs of Note Short Takes

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Taking a closer look at CDs by The 3D Jazz Trio, Artemis, Mayita Dinos, theTNEK Jazz Quintet, and Bernard Purdie, Christian Fabian ...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Remember this date - 66 years ago in jazz history

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Yes, it has been 66 years. On July 17, 1954, something happened in Newport, Rhode Island that made an indelible mark on jazz history - and...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Thanks, Freddy, for the jazz connection

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The fine pianist and singer Freddy Cole died Saturday, June 27, at age 88 at his home in Atlanta. He had been struggling with cardiovascular...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Still singing the pandemic blues? Aren't we all?

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Three months into the pandemic quarantines caused by COVID-19, we have seen our lives changed in so many ways, at least temporarily. And non...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Another big loss for jazz

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Drummer Jimmy Cobb, for 29 years the only surviving member of trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind of Blue sextet, died yesterday at his home in...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

CDs of Note - Short Takes

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Taking a closer look at CDs by Wayne Alpern, Lynne Arriale, Clairdee, Tim Ray and Dana Sandler….   Wayne Alpern, Standard Deviation (Hen...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

International Jazz Day thoughts about our new world of virtual jazz

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The world at-large - and the jazz world as we knew it and enjoyed it - have changed drastically over the past six weeks because of the pande...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Jazz musicians silenced by coronavirus, Chapter 2 (updated 11-24-2020)

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Here is part two of our chronological listing of jazz-related COVID-19 deaths from the novel coronavirus, updated as we receive them. Ou...
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