Remembering Michael Brecker
On January 13 2007, two and a half years after being diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (1), and just one month […]
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Tag: Jazz File
Jimmy Raney: Bebop’s Quiet Master
Jimmy Raney, one of the great unsung heroes of bebop jazz guitar was born in Louisville, KY, in 1927. He […]
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, “A Night in Tunisia” Music Matters Jazz MM BST-4049 Vinyl Double 45 rpm Album
I clearly remember my first exposure to Art Blakey. I was living in New York during the eighties, in my first […]
Barney Kessel – He Played With Everybody
If you listen to almost any jazz or pop record from the 1950s and many from the 1960s, you will […]
The Jazz File: European Offerings
Some have called the blues the most influential art form that Americans have ever unleashed on the world. Considering these […]
The Jazz File: Three on the Six Strings
Like many jazz fans, my love for music began with rock. And like many rock fans, my love of rock […]
The Jazz File: Happy Music…or not.
Interesting couple of albums have taken over my system for the past few months. There’s something of a unified thread […]
The Jazz File: My Grammy Picks
Some of you are probably thinking, “Why would a self-respecting jazz writer give a rat’s rear about the Grammy Awards?” […]
The Jazz File
December is here, the holiday season…a time for wanton acts of kindness, endless shopping, and (of course) every music critics’ […]
The Jazz File: William Parker, Part 2: A Three and a Four…
Bob’s Pink Cadillac Bob’s Pink Cadillac, credited to the “William Parker Clarinet Trio”, features sidemen not normally associated with Parker’s […]