Jazz is full of songs that have BLUE in the title that aren’t actually blues, whether 8, 12, or 16 bars. And the EarRegulars played two of the nicest ones last Sunday night, December 6, 2009, a… more →
JAZZ LIVESwrote 3 weeks ago: Jazz is full of songs that have BLUE in the title that aren’t actually blues, whether 8, 12, o … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I remember that once an interviewer, trying to find out whether Ruby Braff was playing a cornet or a … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Last Sunday at The Ear Inn, November 22, 2009, the compact, eloquent quartet — The Ear Regular … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Jon-Erik Kellso already has a deep repertoire of songs, as listeners know. I was especially delight … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Sunday night at The Ear Inn, the performances that moved me the most were three love songs — i … more →
wrote 3 months ago: What, I ask you, could be simpler or more pleasing? Duke will be here for a whirlwind tour where ev … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Jon-Erik Kellso, Hot Man Supreme, will be leading a remarkable quartet at The Ear Inn this coming Su … more →
wrote 6 months ago: This performance — faster than usual, happily so — took place last night, Sunday, June 2 … more →
wrote 7 months ago: New Yorkers are lucky for many reasons — but here’s something new to celebrate. Trumpete … more →
wrote 7 months ago: The wizard guitarist (plectrist, rather) Matt Munisteri has a ferocious beat, is a cornucopia of new … more →
wrote 8 months ago: I hadn’t been to the Ear Inn for some time, and was suffering Ear-deprivation, so I was intent … more →
wrote 9 months ago: If all this is about ye olde bar rooms in New York City, and it is, you knew this was coming. This … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Joe Cohn, John Allred, Ken Peplowski, Jon-Erik Kellso (above). The same ensemble with Danny Tobias a … more →
wrote 11 months ago: When I was in graduate school, deep in W.B. Yeats-idolatry (my other life has been wound around Iris … more →
wrote 11 months ago: I tried to tell Betty Sue that she didn’t need to place herself so firmly in front of her radi … more →
wrote 11 months ago: The posting below found its way into the JAZZ LIVES mailbox, thanks to John Herr: January 12, 2009 T … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Checking this blog’s stats this afternoon, I note with pleasure that the preceding post, featu … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Courtesy of Howard Alden, Jon-Erik Kellso, Danny Tobias, Harvey Tibbs, Evan Christopher, Dan Block, … more →
wrote 1 year ago: People danced in the aisles at The Ear Inn last night. In the movies, when a scene takes place in a … more →