T he legendary comedian and actor Jackie Gleason often listed “musician,” “composer” and “conductor” as a part of his ...

J ust because we’re deep in autumn’s serenade for John Coltrane’s 100th birthday doesn’t mean we can’t break off some love ...

John Zorn’s Flatlands at Solar Myth, John Zorn conducting. L-R: Simon Hanes, Zorn, Ches Smith, Matt Hollenberg. Photo by the author. f you had to credit/blame any one person for twisting the jazz ...

arly on in this memoir-of-sorts from Al Schackman (via A.G. Dunewood Publishing Co.), the venerable guitarist (93 this October) mentions that he has perfect pitch and a photographic memory. Both serve ...

rom 1969 through the late ’90s, listeners to jazz radio in England, Germany, Denmark, Holland and other European countries heard one of the most seductive sounds ever to come out of their speakers: ...

eanie Bryson, a jazz singer whose languid, confidential purr, minimalist phrasing and gauzy mood-setting marked her as a stylistic daughter of Shirley Horn and Peggy Lee, has died at 68. She had been ...

The 1966 album Miles Smiles is readily available in all formats. Listeners will have no trouble locating and listening to “Circle,” a Miles Davis composition, the album’s second track. But they will ...

In his 2004 memoir, Chronicles, Volume One, Bob Dylan writes about his early days in New York’s Greenwich Village, when the 21-year-old would eagerly seek out musicians, writers and artists, anyone ...

Honora, the new solo album from Flea, feels like a thinker relearning how to speak. Not metaphorically — literally. Breath becomes language. And what Flea offers here is not fluency, but vulnerability ...

T here are conversations that begin before anyone has spoken, shaped instead by the residue of attention already in the air. The promotional image appears, … Read More “Jazz Vocalist and Composer ...

Altoist Jesse Davis opens Jazzcultural. All screenshots by the author. In the days leading up to the grand opening of Jazzcultural, the new miracle midtown sibling of Smalls and Mezzrow, Spike Wilner ...

Within the dreaded currency of American history, and a moment where midterm elections may by “handled” by the right, it is important — perhaps even comforting — to note that once upon a time, John ...