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Courtney Pine: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Courtney Pine didn't pick up his beloved tenor saxophone for more than a decade, until an album exploring the black British experience demanded it. The multi-instrumentalist eschewed the horn on...
Rufus Reid: Composer, Educator, Bassist, Gait...

Rufus Reid doesn't play standards, as much as he is the standard, a well of knowledge and wisdom that this bassist was fortunate to sit down with one afternoon....
Denys Baptiste: Making the Late Trane Accessible

Even the most avowed John Coltrane disciples among us would admit to grappling with some of the albums he released in the couple of years before his death—the likes of Ascension, Sun Ship and Om...
European Jazz Conference 2017

The snow-capped mountains flanking Ljubljana form a natural border between Slovenia and Italy and provided a picturesque backdrop to the 4th annual European Jazz Conference. For the record...
Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs,...

Marching bands, ragtime music, and the blues, were all well-entrenched and spreading up the Mississippi River Valley from New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century...

Reviews

Daily album reviews—from independent to major label releases.

Brian Charette...
Kurrent

Daniel Sommer
Duets

Ernesto Cervini's...
Rev

The Frequency Modulators Orchestra, Vol. 1

Amplitude Problem
The Frequency...

Articles

Interviews, columns, concert reviews, and more.

AJAZZGO Festival in Cali, Colombia

CEO Experiment With Kurt Rosenwinkel at The Sugar Club

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis at...

Bob Niederitter Trio At The Bop Stop

Interview with 2017 Detroit Jazz Festival

In Pictures: 2017 Detroit Jazz Festival

Alex Han: Embracing The Spirit

Track of the Day

Discover new jazz! Download or stream a free tune every day.

Orazio Saracino
IncontroTempo Suite

Idit Shner
Departure

Debora Galán
Arms of Love

Colette Wickenhagen
A Night In Tunesia

News

Timely announcements from the industry.

Book / Magazine Saxophonist Mark Turner Profiled In International Arts Magazine

BRIC Announces Third Annual BRIC Jazzfest, A World-Class Jazz Festival In The Heart Of The Brooklyn Cultural District, October 14-21, 2017

Event BRIC Announces Third Annual BRIC Jazzfest, A World-Class Jazz Festival In The Heart Of The Brooklyn...

Contest 7 Virtual Jazz Club's Global Online Jazz Contest 2017 Edition - Total ‎€ 7,000 In Prizes

Performance / Tour Just Announced! The Dean Brown Band ROLAJAFUFU Fall Tour 2017

"Funny Face" 60th Anniversary Celebrated With Deluxe, Expanded Version Of Soundtrack via Verve Records/UMe

Recording "Funny Face" 60th Anniversary Celebrated With Deluxe, Expanded Version Of Soundtrack via Verve...

Recording Francois Bourassa Quartet Releases "Number 9" on Effendi Records

Fred Astaire's Greatest Jazz Recording "The Astaire Story" Returns As Deluxe 2CD Set For 65th Anniversary On October 20 Via Verve Records/UMe

Recording Fred Astaire's Greatest Jazz Recording "The Astaire Story" Returns As Deluxe 2CD Set For 65th...

King Crimson Releases "Official Bootleg: Live In Chicago, June 28th, 2017" & "Sailors’ Tales (1970-1972)"

Recording King Crimson Releases "Official Bootleg: Live In Chicago, June 28th, 2017" & "Sailors’ Tales...

The Ed Palermo Big Band brings together two fave 1960s American Pop/Rock Superheroes for "The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren"

Recording The Ed Palermo Big Band brings together two fave 1960s American Pop/Rock Superheroes for "The Adventures of Zodd...

Recording Francois Bourassa Quartet Releases "Number 9" on Effendi Records

Recording California Vocalist Debora Galan Shares Spanish Roots In "All About Love"

Recording Fred Astaire's Greatest Jazz Recording "The Astaire Story" Returns As Deluxe 2CD Set For 65th Anniversary On October 20...

Recording Multi-Award Winning Guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko Celebrates 25 Years Of Music!

Recording King Crimson Releases "Official Bootleg: Live In Chicago, June 28th, 2017" & "Sailors’ Tales (1970-1972)"

Website Jazz Near You Spotlight Service Expands to Include Venues & Festivals

Video / DVD StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Harold López-Nussa

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Legendary musician, guitarist, influential jazz artist, composer, arranger, session player, record producer, one of the leading figures in West Coast jazz, later delving into hard bop, Barney Kessel... read more

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Story of the Day

Jazz and the blues--because together this musical brother and sister speak from our nation's days of the current cultural affairs and the authenticity and truth of a place where the rhythms held the pulse and the drums the heartbeat, representing every step closer the meat on the bone
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Jazz and the blues--because together this musical brother and sister speak from our nation's days of the current cultural affairs and the authenticity and truth of a place where the rhythms held the pulse and the drums the heartbeat, representing every step closer the meat on the bone. Feet in the dirt, or barefoot on a stage with sequins--it's soul beats in my chest. I was first exposed to jazz while others listened to surf music in the '50s and '60s, it was Monk, Miles, Satchmo and Ella, Rosemary Clooney and Julie London followed. Margaret Whiting, Les McCann, Willie Bobo, Andy Simpkins, Snooky Young, Bill Basie and Helen Humes. The first time I heard Topsy, Take 2, I about passed out at the age of ten. I've hung with Les McCann who more than 30 years after our first meeting became my duet partner on my CD, Don't Go To Strangers. Karen Hernandez from the start, Jack Le Compte on drums, Lou Shoch on bass, Steve Rawlins as my arranger and pianist, Grant Geissman - guitar genius, Nolan Shaheed, Richard Simon, and more. The big boys. My Red Hot Papas. The best show I ever attended was... I met Helen Humes first back in 1981 and helped turn one Playboy Jazz Festival night into her tribute, bring the Basie Band to stage, her joy boys. Before she took the stage for the last time to sing, “If I could Be With You One Hour Tonight” thousands of copies of the newspaper I wrote for carried her story. It was kismet, her being held by Joe Williams backstage. Soon in my life were the great Linda Hopkins who told me I sang the song she wrote better than her, which floored me of course, the energizing Barbara Morrison and the stellar Marilyn Maye who guided me professionally. My advice to new listeners... let your backbone slip and feel your body stripping back the barriers that prevent us from being one with the music. Remember none of us are strangers, we just haven't met yet.
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By Mary Bogue
Member since: 2014