Jazz Articles

Flaco Jimenez: Squeeze Box King

by C. Michael Bailey
October 5, 2003

The roots of conjunto music (like its cousin tejano ) are broad, long, and deep. The epicenter of this music lies in Mexico, with its regional and social varieties and its fully evolved assembly of song styles. The musical traditions of Southern Texas and of Northern Mexico have drawn the muse from not Mexicanos, but also from their Anglo-and African-Americans and Eastern European immigrant neighbors like the Czechs, Bohemians, Poles, and Moravians as well as the Germans and Italians. The ...

Suzy Bogguss: Swing

by C. Michael Bailey
June 25, 2003

Suzy Bogguss has had a very successful career in the contemporary country arena in the 1980s and ‘90s. Her debut recording for Liberty Records, Somewhere In Between, was critically well received and contains songs by Nashville and Austin royalty Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, and Merle Haggard. Ms. Bogguss today finds herself with a new label and a bit of a new direction.

This is not strictly a jazz record to be sure, and Suzy Bogguss is not the first artist ...