Jazz

Today is Wynton Kelly’s 80th birthday anniversary. As an accompanist, Kelly made Dinah Washington, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley , Cannonball Adderley and other jazz greats sound even better, and he...

A Moving Account of Love for An Ailing Master Clark Terry’s 94th birthday is Sunday, December 14. Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra paid him a visit on Monday at the hospital in...

I got a call from Scott Merzbach, a reporter at the Daily Hampshire Gazette, on Monday afternoon with the news that Yusef Lateef had died.  I asked Scott if he knew the time of death?  For at...

Long before I had a driver’s license, I was already going the extra mile, often under the power of my raised thumb, to hear music that mattered to me.  Worcester’s Kitty Kat Lounge, where jam sessions...

While we’re waiting out Hurricane Sandy, here’s a few servings of Zoot SIms, whose 87th birthday anniversary is today. Let’s begin with Count Basie fielding a 1979 edition of the Kansas City Five featuring...