Marquis Hill, “New Gospel Revisited” (Edition) Call it a successful back-to-the-future gambit: Marquis Hill, the gifted Chicago trumpeter and composer…
Meet Victor Wooten, Concerto Composer (feature)
The bass guitar and the symphony orchestra may strike some as strange bedfellows. But it’s not like they’ve never met…
Beware “The Jazz”!
The year in jazz: 21 for ’21
Here are the jazz albums that repeatedly ascended to the top of my pile this year (in alphabetical order, because…
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge Forge Ahead With New “Within Us” Album
(Adapted from a piece that originally appeared in JazzTimes magazine, online and in the January 2022 print edition; read it…
A Way Forward? RIP, George Floyd
(“A mural of George Floyd has been painted at the Cup Foods site where Floyd was arrested by Minneapolis police…
RIP, Jimmy Cobb
Jimmy Cobb, the last surviving member of Miles’ classic “Kind of Blue” band, also was integral to bands led by…
Thank You, New York Times. Thank You, Journalists.
Yesterday’s New York Times front page — with the name, age, place, and a tiny obit of 1,000 of the…
Bye, Bye, Little Richard
Few figures towered over rock ‘n’ roll’s beginnings as largely as did Little Richard, who has died at 87 (official…
COVID-19 vs Jazz — Death toll continues to rise
A little more than a month ago, I wrote about the deaths of several major jazzers felled by the coronovarius,…
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