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Early jazz legend Leon Bismark [Bix] Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, a mid-sized midwestern city. He attended Davenport schools until 1920 and showed an early aptitude for music. His family disapproved of his interest in jazz and sent him to Lake Forest Academy [IL] in 1921, but the opportunity to play and hear jazz in nearby Chicago was too distracting and eventually led to his expulsion. After several months working for his father in Davenport, he returned to Chicago. He played with several bands around Chicago joining the Wolverine Orchestra in 1924. Bix became well known through his playing and recordings with the Wolverines

Article: Interview

Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master

by Marco Iacoboni
October 29, 2026

Meeting Enrico Rava means stepping into a world of stories, musicians and memories spanning decades of jazz history. We met on the occasion of the release of Corners, the ECM album he recorded with his band, Fearless Five, and a very special guest, Joe Lovano. With so many anecdotes, encounters and digressions to draw ...

Article: Interview

Enrico Rava - Gli angoli segreti di un trombettista

by Marco Iacoboni
October 26, 2026

Incontrare Enrico Rava significa entrare in un mondo di storie, musicisti e ricordi che attraversano decenni di Storia del Jazz. Lo abbiamo incontrato in occasione dell'uscita di Corners, il disco realizzato con i Fearless Five e la partecipazione di un ospite d'eccezione: Joe Lovano. Tra aneddoti, incontri e digressioni, il difficile non è stato trovare gli ...

Article: Album Review

Sal Mosca: For Lennie Tristano

Read "For Lennie Tristano" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
December 16, 2025

Sal Mosca was absorbed by the ideas of Lenne Tristano. The life force that is in the music of Tristano is not waning. The ascetic ideas and the edgy magnificence of the music continue to enthrall without press agents, advertising, PR consultants: just musicians who continue to be captivated by the purity of the music.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Music of Hoagy Carmichael, part 2

by Larry Slater
June 20, 2025

This is the second hour dedicated to the music of Hoagy Carmichael, the most jazz oriented of all the American songwriters. His output was remarkably varied, and without a signature style that characterized the theater composers like Jerome Kern or Cole Porter. Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. ...

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The Music of Hoagy Carmichael, Part 1

by Larry Slater
June 13, 2025

Hoagy Carmichael's career as one of America's great songwriters is unlike any of his peers. Carmichael, like George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, was born at the tail end of the 19th century, but he was never a Broadway composer, and he wasn't from New York. He was a midwesterner from Indiana, drawn more to ...

Article: Backstories

The Legacy of Lillian Hardin Armstrong

by Karl Ackermann
April 10, 2025

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the book is incomplete by necessity; there is no well-marked path, and the history is sometimes nebulous. However, ...

Article: Album Review

Terry Waldo: Treasury Volume 1

Read "Treasury Volume 1" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 2, 2025

Simply stated, and without hyperbole, Terry Waldo is an American musical treasure. He's also a treasure purveyor. A protégé of and mentored by Eubie Blake, Waldo is a player, composer, arranger, author, podcaster, theatrical director, and the noted oracle for ragtime and early American popular music. With Treasury Volume 1 (the first of a three-volume set), ...

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Benny Goodman, Terry Gibbs, Al Jolson, George Gershwin & Bill Charlap

by Joe Dimino
February 23, 2025

Tune in for the 894th show, a jazz-filled hour celebrating the legendary artists featured in Kosher Jammer, the latest book by London-based jazz journalist Mike Garber. This deep dive explores how the Jewish community intertwined with African-Americans and other minority groups to shape jazz into the timeless art form it is today. We kick things off ...

Article: Interview

Mario Mariotti, ricerca e improvvisazione tra contemporanea e jazz

by Neri Pollastri
December 2, 2024

Trombettista milanese di formazione accademica e dalle diversificate esperienze, appassionato esploratore dei multiformi scenari dell'improvvisazione, Mario Mariotti negli ultimi anni ha proposto lavori diversi tra loro, ma tutti molto interessanti. Abbiamo conversato con lui per conoscere meglio la sua personalità artistica. All About Jazz: Comincerei dal tuo interesse per Bill Dixon al quale ti ...