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Article: Album Review

Nancy Reed & Spencer Reed: Happying

Read "Happying" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
August 19, 2024

The jazz world encompasses a multitude of local communities. Jazz came to Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania via the inns and summer resorts for which the region has been known since the second decade of the 19th century, attracting New Yorkers and Philadelphians seeking summer refuge and fresh woodland air. By ...

Article: Drum Addiction

Mere Noisemakers

by Troy Hoffman
July 13, 2024

Drummers used to be predominantly known as mere noisemakers (not musicians) coming out of the Vaudeville-era, where percussionists were seen as background tools. They often carried out sound effect cues, sent from studios to theaters, for silent films. This left drummers with the responsible task of mimicking the sounds of hurricanes, car crashes and thunderstorms from ...

Article: Interview

Bill Goodwin: Not Less Than Everything

by Victor L. Schermer
January 24, 2022

Bill Goodwin is like a breath of fresh air blowing through jazz. From the time around 1954 when he was in Los Angeles and just learning the drums, and inspired by Shelly Manne, to today, around his 80th birthday, he has loved jazz and the musicians unconditionally. He has befriended and worked with so many of ...

Article: Live Review

Alan Broadbent Trio at the Deer Head Inn

by Victor L. Schermer
August 15, 2018

Alan Broadbent Trio Deer Head Inn Delaware Water Gap, PA August 11, 2018 Believe you me, it wasn't by choice that I hadn't been to the Dear Head Inn in a few years to take in some great jazz in its secluded setting on a wooded hill ...