Jazz

Tuesday is an off-night for the World Series, so I can’t think of a better place to be than Amherst Cinema for the screening of a new documentary on Erroll Garner, No One Can Hear You Read.  The...

Harrison, Neville, and Butler in Springfield Evan Christopher I’m still buzzing from the double dose of New Orleans-in-New England that highlighted Saturday’s Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival....

Evan Christopher Evan Christopher was back in New Orleans this week in time to don his “blacks and whites” for the final second line tribute to Uncle Lionel Batiste, a beloved member of the Treme Brass...

Mait Eady, the host of this 1962 broadcast on WBAI, says he’s “feeling evangelical” about the interview he’s about to conduct with Herbie Nichols. I dare say that’s how virtually...

One of the greatest pleasures I’ve had as the host of Jazz a la Mode was getting to know Mort Fega, the legendary New York jazz deejay who was one of the most colorful voices in the history of my profession....

John Montanari First off, a little context: My radio career began at WCUW in Worcester in 1977.  A special feature for Paul Butterfield’s 35th birthday occasioned my guest appearance on a Sunday evening...

Season’s Greetings! As your dutiful host of Jazz à la Mode, I maintain a fairly breathless pace keeping up with the great music that continues to issue from the jazz world. Here are 45 albums...

It may be President’s Day, but I’ve been enthralled this morning with rare footage of several of my all-time favorite First Ladies of Song. Thanks to Dick LaPalm, the former aide to Nat King Cole and Chess...

I was moved the other night listening to Frank Sinatra’s performance of “Ol’ Man River” at his 1962 concert in Paris. He first sang the 1927 Kern-Hammerstein anthem from Showboat on his inaugural...

The Song Sinatra Bit! “That’s Life” was the first Frank Sinatra tune that appealed to me. I was a 13-year-old when I first heard it and was not yet a fan of Sinatra’s. His sixties radio hits “Strangers...