Jazz

Lee Morgan told Nat Hentoff in 1960, “I don’t think I have a completely original style, though I have an identity.  An identity is when someone who knows jazz can say, ‘that’s Lee Morgan playing,’...

Lennie Sogoloff died today on Boston’s North Shore at the age of 90. He was the proprietor of Lennie’s-on-the-Turnpike, a hallowed jazz club on Route 1 in West Peabody, Massachusetts,...

(r-l) Lennie Tristano and Charlie Parker with Hot Lips Page, Lester Young, and Max Kaminsky, at Birdland, 1949 Among Charlie Parker’s many admirers, Lennie Tristano was especially respectful of Bird’s...

“He never left you with any doubt about what he meant.”  Warne Marsh on Lennie Tristano Here’s a documentary on Lennie Tristano that was produced by NBC, that’s Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation,...

Among Charlie Parker’s many admirers, Lennie Tristano was especially respectful of Bird’s character and astute in his assessments of the saxophonist’s music.  The blind pianist...

Among Charlie Parker’s many admirers, Lennie Tristano was especially respectful of Bird’s character and astute in his assessments of the saxophonist’s music.  The blind pianist...

Lenny Bruce Too much! Amazing and sweet! Lenny Bruce on jazz and modern art, with Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Teddy Kotick, and Philly Joe Jones playing Charlie Parker’s “Au Privave,”...

Swiss Movement Live at Montreux I remember just where I was when I first heard Swiss Movement, the concert album by Les McCann and Eddie Harris recorded at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival. I was...

Pres For All Seasons Lester Young “Very little about the tenor saxophonist Lester Young was unoriginal,” wrote Whitney Balliett in one of the most memorable of his jazz musician profiles forThe New...

I found this rarity by Lee and Lester Young on YouTube this morning and was only its 100th viewer. It’s an aircheck from a Mutual Network radio broadcast. Lee was leading the Esquires of Rhythm at...