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The Legacy of Billy Strayhorn, part I: Lush Life, Take the A Train and more
by Larry Slater
Billy Strayhorn had one of the most unusual careers in jazz. Today his genius as a composer of jazz and song is uniformly acknowledged, but that was not the case during his lifetime. Strayhorn spent his entire career as in Duke Ellington's words, “his composing and arranging partner."Many of his most famous creations were ...
Big Ears 2026
by Mark Sullivan
Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 26-29, 2026 Another year, another jam-packed festival lineup. The Spotlight presentations included SUSS Presents Across the Horizon, an ambient country experience; films and performances related to Ethiopia's musical legacy; and David Byrne's Who is the Sky? Polish pianist/composer Hania Rani offered an ambient concert and the ...
5 Epic Jazz Songs That Forever Changed the World
by Alan Bryson
So You Don't Like Jazz normally focuses on ways to turn people on to jazz, but this column focuses on five jazz songs whose impact profoundly changed modern music. In the process they also demonstrated that jazz could be successful in a modern culture dominated by pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues. Arguably the ...
Plays Duke, Part III: More contemporary covers of Ellington's best loved tunes.
by Larry Slater
Duke Ellington's legacy lives on today largely through his compositions, and musicians from around the globe continue to embrace his music, finding new ways to re-interpret his songs.In this hour, you'll hear some immortal selections from the Ellington canon, including “Cotton Tail," “Solitude," “In A Sentimental Mood," “Come Sunday," “Reflections in D," and “The ...
Guitar and Bass Reviews featuring Josh Achiron
by Jerome Wilson
These are short reviews of recent guitar or bass-led albums. Dave Stryker Blue Fire--The Van Gelder Session Strikezone Records 2026 Guitarist Dave Stryker fulfilled a long-time dream by recording this album with his longstanding organ trio at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. The ...
Josh Achiron: Climbing
by Jack Bowers
On his debut album, Climbing, Chicago-based guitarist, composer and educator Joshua Achiron leads a trio of battle-tested musicians through a program that consists of seven of his original compositions and Duke Ellington's frisky “Take the Coltrane." If diversity was the goal, mission accomplished. No two tracks are comparable, and the quartet traverses a ...
Duke Ellington, Brian Wilson and Friends: Shimmering Prologue: The Lost Sandbox Sessions
by Mike Jurkovic
Picture this: LA: Tuesday, early September, '66. A few months after Pet Sounds (Capitol, 1966) reshaped the landscape. The weather (pre-climate change) breaks around the mid 70's with a slight breeze sliding in from the east. Mired in an un-stately creative slump, Duke Ellington finds himself being ushered into 6000 Sunset Boulevard (Western Studio ...
Cirque du Soleil: From J to Z - A Fantasia
by Geno Thackara
It feels familiar enough at the start: a bluesy piano intro, a playful back-and-forth exchange between a pair of horns... but within a few minutes, the stage lighting has turned practically psychedelic. Figures begin weaving through the dinner tables, masked like animals but garbed in sequined dresses and hip suits. Soon they are forming small human ...
Franco D'Andrea: Live
by Giuseppe Segala
Da quanto tempo Franco D'Andrea si misura con il classico trio di pianoforte, contrabbasso e batteria? L'esordio discografico in tale ambito, con la registrazione nel 1970 di Modern Art Trio, rappresentò una sfida forte ed eccentrica rispetto al trio jazz, in sintonia con quei tempi di sperimentazione e scavalcamento delle barriere, di mescolamento di idiomi, generi ...
Plays Duke, part II: Contemporary Covers of Ellingtonia from the Swing Era
by Larry Slater
Duke Ellington always said his orchestra was his instrument, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra was at the peak of its power and popularity in the 1930s and 40s. Many famous Ellington masterpieces were penned during this era; “It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing," “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me," “I ...
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