Jazz

The jazz inspiration of a New York painter Charles Cajori, who died on December 1 at the age of 92, was one of the last of what constituted the second generation of Abstract Expressionist artists....

Today is Charles Lloyd’s 75thbirthday.  He’s celebrating the milestone with a concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tonight, and he’ll be at Sanders Theater in Cambridge on Thursday.  Lloyd had...

new england public media · Charles Lloyd interview by Tom Reney – Jazz à la ModeI spoke with Charles Lloyd on June 19. The great saxophonist and flutist’s quartet (Gerald Clayton, piano;...

Charles Mingus in New York City on July 4, 1976 (photo by Tom Marcello) The closest I ever came to meeting Charles Mingus was when I followed him up the stairs of the Jazz Workshop in Boston on a wintry...

Thomas Reichman made this fascinating cinema vérité documentary on Charles Mingus in 1966.  It was filmed during a particularly unsettled period in Mingus’s life and documents his eviction from the...

Thomas Reichman made this fascinating cinema vérité documentary on Charles Mingus in 1966.  It was filmed during a particularly unsettled period in Mingus’s life and documents his eviction from the...

Ralph Ellison began his essay on Charlie Christian on a note that must have resonated with filmmaker Ken Burns. “Jazz, like the country which gave it birth, is fecund in its inventiveness, swift and traumatic...

I’ve dug deeply into Charlie Haden’s recorded legacy since his death on Friday. I’m impressed all over again by how vast and varied his output was, and humbled to acknowledge how easy...

Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Open Door, New York City, 1953 A few weeks ago (March 8, 2019), the New York Times ran a piece entitled, “Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz...

I was on the phone with a music industry veteran a few weeks ago when I made a passing reference to the interview that took place between Paul Desmond and Charlie Parker on a Boston radio station in 1954. ...