Jazz
09/29/2015
Jazz saxaphonist Phil Woods plays at the Deer Head Inn at Delaware Water Gap on Saturday, August 19, 2006.
Word has arrived of the passing of Phil Woods. The great saxophonist wrote earlier this year...
02/19/2013
Today is President’s Day, the holiday I like to conflate with Lester Young. I doubt Prez would have made a good president, and we know from his court martial that the U.S. Army was horribly negligent...
03/04/2014
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Professor Longhair at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
My passion for New Orleans music ramped up to infatuation on July 3, 1973, when I heard Professor Longhair...
01/29/2016
The Tenor Sax Great Turns 65
Notwithstanding the essential role that records and CD’s play in the documenting of an artist’s or ensemble’s work; in the writing of jazz history; in the private pleasures...
04/07/2016
Happy 90th Birthday!
Randy Weston at Prospect Park, Brooklyn; photo by Alan Nahigian
Yesterday was the pianist and composer Randy Weston’s 90th birthday. Willard Jenkins, who collaborated with the...
04/21/2012
Saturday is Record Store Day. I only learned of this in today’s Boston Globe, so I guess record stores, those few in operation anyway, could still stand a lesson in Marketing 101. As it happens, I’ve...
02/27/2012
James “Red” Holloway died on Saturday in Morro Bay, CA at the age of 84. The alto and tenor saxophonist was born in the deep blues territory of Helena, Arkansas in 1927, and moved...
08/17/2016
As listeners to Jazz à la Mode know, Rene Marie is one of the most frequently heard singers in the show. I usually need to hear a vocalist in person before I decide yea or nay, but Rene won me over as...
03/19/2014
wrote about Django Reinhardt’s 1946 U.S. tour with Duke Ellington earlier, but that wasn’t the guitarist’s first encounter with Ellingtonia. The Ellington Orchestra arrived in Paris on...
02/22/2024
Rex Stewart was born February 22, 1907, in Philadelphia. As a cornetist, he was a remarkably complete stylist whose features ranged from a 1931 assignment with Fletcher Henderson playing the lyrical solo...
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