Jazz is the music of philosophers, of music theory savants, of mystical and singular musicians. It’s syncopations so laid back they threaten to fall over backwards and tangy chromatic runs that float ...
O.K., so you're trying to build up a nice little jazz recording library for yourself and you want to be able to do it without breaking the bank or facing dirty looks from your spouse for blowing the ...
A Superb Introduction to the Great American Song Book... My first brush with what are commonly called "standards" in jazz parlance came when I devoured Linda Ronstadt’s Round Midnight with the Nelson ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s been a lot of significant news for jazz history buffs in recent months. Here are some shining excavations. In the 1930s and ’40s, New York radio ...
June 26, 2026 • Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her lovingly restored birthplace in Tryon, N.C. June 26, 2026 • ...
Joni Mitchell, Canadian-American icon of folk music and champion of the singer-songwriter genre, released “Joni’s Jazz,” a four-part collection of new and old music, on Friday, Sept. 5. The ...
Central Avenue was the heart of LA’s jazz scene in the first half of the 20th century. Nightclubs and dance halls — including the Downbeat, Club Alabam, and Joe Morris’ Plantation Club — brought in ...
For decades jazz cognoscenti have talked reverently of “the Savory Collection.” Recorded from radio broadcasts in the late 1930s by an audio engineer named William Savory, it was known to include ...
For decades, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla has assembled a fusion of styles and sounds for jazz programming at locations such as the library’s Joan & Irwin Jacobs Music Room and the ...