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Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Crow is best known as a bassist but has been a trumpeter, saxophonist, trombonist, and drummer. He is also one of the few musicians who has bothered trying to write about his craft, beginning with a series of reviews he contributed to Jazz Review in the late '50s and eventually including two full-length books. He was also in charge of the lighting for an off-Broadway show in 1958. Crow's first instrument was the piano, at the age of four. He started playing the trumpet in fourth grade and continued through baritone horn and valve trombone in various school and military bands

Album

The Long Way Home

By Charles Chen

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Laverne Walk; You Turned the Tables on Me; Dream Dancing; Squatty Roo; On the Alamo; You Send Me; Ellington medley (Prelude to a Kiss/I Got It Bad/Sophisticated Lady); Yours Is My Heart Alone; Poor Butterfly; Interview with Steve Little; Interview with Bill Crow.

Article: Album Review

Charles Chen: The Long Way Home

Read "The Long Way Home" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 26, 2026

The Long Way Home is a fascinating album, not so much for the music alone--even though that is first-class--but for the lengthy interviews with the Charles Chen quartet's bassist and drummer, 98-year-old Bill Crow and 91-year-old Steve Little, respectively, who still anchor a regular weekly gig at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City.

Article: Album Review

Rich Peare: Blues For Peter

Read "Blues For Peter" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
September 21, 2025

There is a special kind of pleasure in sitting in a jazz club, listening to talented musicians use their skills to explore some of the finest melodies of the last sixty years. In their debut album, Blues for Peter, Rich Peare (classical guitar) and Don Messina (double bass) offer just that experience. The album features eight ...

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Spring in Stockholm

By Gerry Mulligan

Label: New Land Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: As Catch as Catch Can; I Can't Get Started With You; Just in Time Spring Is Sprung; Blueport; Utter Chaos.

Article: First Time I Saw

Carmen McRae

by Carol Sloane
August 23, 2023

It was in the early 1960's. I had by that time lived in New York's Greenwich Village for a couple of years, and went to hear Carmen McRae when she made an appearance at one of the holy shrines of jazz located in my neighborhood, a club with a relaxed, friendly atmosphere and great Italian food. ...

Article: Book Review

The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets

by Ian Patterson
August 15, 2023

The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets Alyn Shipton240 Pages ISBN: 978-0197579763 Oxford University Press 2023 Several are the biographies of Gerry Mulligan, arguably jazz's most celebrated baritone saxophonist. None, however, have focused as specifically and as closely as this tome does on the quartets with which Mulligan made his name ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases Plus A Celebration Of Octogenarian Women Of Jazz

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 27, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from vocalists Susan Krebs, Tracey Yarad, Hailey Brinnel and Lizzie Thomas, with singles from drummer Cecilia Sanchietti and harpist Brandee Younger, plus birthday shoutouts to Jessica Williams, Nat King Cole, Berta Moreno, Queen of the Organ Shirley Scott, Michele Rosewoman and Mark Murphy, among others. Also a preview of a special ...

News: Interview

Interview: Bill Crow, Part 4

March 23, 2023

Most non-musicians think all jazz bass players are fundamentally alike. They believe they aren't there for us but simply to keep time for the band, the way a transmission is for a car. As one person who isn't a bass fan told me some years ago, “There's a reason they stand in the back, behind the ...

News: Interview

Interview: Bill Crow, Part 3

March 22, 2023

In the ealry 1950s, Bill became exquisite on the bass while playing and recording with some of the era's finest collaborative jazz musicians. Yesterday, Bill and I covered his year with Stan Getz. Today, Bill talks about working with a growing number of leading artists in tjhe 1950s, including Al Haig, Jimmy Raney, Marian McPartland, Jackie ...