Jazz
Nancy Wilson in 2007
The famed vocalist Nancy Wilson died on Thursday at her home near Los Angeles. She was 81. The Chillicothe, Ohio, native was an elegant beauty whom I first knew of through her early...
A Documentary on the Jazz Advocate and Candid Records Producer
Nat Hentoff
I asked the 57-year-old spouse of an in-law who was visiting over Easter weekend if Nat Hentoff’s name rang a bell? “Sure,”...
Nat Hentoff, a restless, uncompromising paragon of modern, independent journalism, died on January 7, 2017, in New York at the age of 91. His family was by his side, and Billie Holiday, whom he presented...
Dick LaPalm and Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole was born on March 17, 1919. For his centennial, I’m posting a couple of recordings by the great singer-pianist, and a rare photo of Nat with Dick LaPalm....
2015 claimed the lives of several major figures in music, some of whom (B.B. King, Clark Terry, Ornette Coleman, Phil Woods, and Allen Toussaint) were remembered in this blog and in Jazz a la Mode. New...
“It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.”
“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities...
By ED BRIDE ASSOCIATES, November 19, 2014 Institutes Endowment to Ensure Continuation of Jazz Programming
Mayor Domenic Sarno entered a reception at the Community Music School of Springfield (Mass.)...
Tradition Is A Temple
In New Orleans, brass bands have played a key role in the local music culture for well over a century. And as most everyone knows, much of what originates in New Orleans eventually...
In my experience, any given week in New Orleans is second only to New York in terms of the crush of music events one must strategize over fitting in, but with enough preparation the canny music lover can...
When my wife Meg and I visited New Orleans a year ago, we heard Aurora Nealand in person for the first time, and I wrote about the experience here. This time around, we heard her four times, twice with...