Big Sid to you. “Good deal!” The eBay seller says that the photograph came from the Burt Goldblatt collection. Goldblatt (1924-2006), whom we all know from album covers and famous photog… more →
JAZZ LIVESwrote 1 week ago: The Daniel Bennett Group Clockhead Goes to Camp (Manhattan Daylight Media Group) By Brian Arsenault … more →
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wrote 1 month ago: Dobells, when I first knew it, was a tiny record shop in Charing Cross Road, with, if I remember cor … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus (1971) Anyone who has read this blog before and is both obser … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Before watching Ken Burns’ “Jazz” miniseries, which aired over 10 consecutive week … more →
wrote 2 months ago: awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: “A Great Day in Harlem”: A lot of famous jazz musicians, including … more →
wrote 3 months ago: My Suite on the famous Coleman Hawkins recording Body and Soul is to be premiered at this free conce … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Matthias Seuffert, that splendid chameleon so adept at becoming others while retaining his own shini … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Many of the most admired jazz improvisers don’t sit down and “compose” music on ma … more →
wrote 3 months ago: _________________________ Prisoner of Love (m. Russ Columbo w. Clarence Gaskill and Leo Robin)* … more →
wrote 3 months ago: If you’ve been reading the dolorous saga of the Red Knapsack, you know that I have come to a d … more →
wrote 3 months ago: TONIGHT - Tuesday, January 29: Evidence: The Music of Thelonius Monk at Sweetwater Grill & Tav … more →
wrote 3 months ago: __________________________ Under a Blanket of Blue (m. Jerry Livingston*, w. Al J. Neiburg and Marty … more →
wrote 3 months ago: I’m on to a chapter about jazz in my book at the moment and earlier this evening I was just re … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Wherever there’s music like this — sweet, warm, hot, impassioned but restrained in its b … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Django Reinhardt Powered by Oxford University Press. NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross: Django … more →
wrote 4 months ago: During this set at the 2012 Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party, it began to snow, but Andy Schumm and hi … more →