Jazz Articles about Michael Treni

Pop-Culture Blues

by Jack Bowers
July 14, 2013

The blues, as it turns out, has many shades; an enduring art form that has been an integral part of the language of jazz since its beginning (if not before). Some aspects of the blues are readily perceived, others not so much. “The common thread," Michael Treni writes in his astute liner notes to Pop-Culture Blues, the fifth album as leader of his own big band, “is that the blues is most frequently found as a 12-bar form made up ...