Jazz

Here’s a nice complement to last week’s post of photos from Lennie’s-on-the-Turnpike in Peabody.  Click here for footage from Sandy’s Jazz Revival, the Beverly, Mass. nightclub that brought...

It Was 60 Years Ago Today Very little of a negative nature was ever expressed about Clifford Brown. The trumpeter was gifted with a beautiful tone, inventive melodic skills, and profound rhythmic mastery,...

I have Sarah Vaughan to thank for bringing my fledgling hobby as a concert photographer to a sudden end.  Back in the day, I owned a good camera and took classes at the Worcester Art Museum, where...

I was in Lenox yesterday to interview the actor John Douglas Thompson and playwright Terry Teachout about “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” and to see the one-man, one-act play at Shakespeare & Company. ...

When I posted a feature (linked below) about Scott Hamilton on his 60th birthday two years ago, Duke Robillard wrote a note of appreciation for the saxophonist in which he said, “Of all the musicians...

On the few occasions when I’ve said hello to Scott Hamilton, he’s been just as shy and diffident as he is here with Peter Appleyard in a 1977 appearance in Toronto. Perhaps that’s why there’s a paucity...

One of the most substantial biographies I’ve read in recent years is the 2009 publication that Helene LaFaro-Fernandez devoted to her brother Scott.  The great bassist is best known for his work with...

Scott LaFaro One of the most substantial biographies I’ve read in recent years is the 2009 publication that Helene LaFaro-Fernandez devoted to her brother Scott.  The great bassist is best known...

Scott Mullett When you look up names beginning M-U-L-L in jazz indexes, Gerry Mulligan (and sometimes Moon Mullins) is about all you get. But for Central and Western New Englanders, and lots of folks...

Notwithstanding the dire economic straits of jazz, the music appears to be as healthy as ever on the bandstand.  Players are taking care of business; the rest of us need to keep buying their music...