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Here’s my annotated Top Five for 2011, followed by 25 runners-up: Karrin Allyson: ‘Round Midnight Concord Jazz http://www.karrin.com/ Allyson has a rare gift for blending wry...
Was there a single jazz musician in the audience for the Kennedy Center Honors on December 3rd? Besides Sonny Rollins, that is, who was one of the five honorees. From...
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...
Bob Brookmeyer was hardly the first person to belie F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dictum, “There are no second acts in American lives,” but he’s one of the few jazz musicians to have survived...