Jazz Music Blog

Choice Anecdotes: Comic Books and Switchblades

Nat Hentoff encourages us to “Listen to the Stories” in a book of that same name published in 2000.

John Coltrane’s Ballads was viewed as something of an anomaly in the midst of the saxophonist’s turbulent creative development in the early ‘60’s.

Sidney Bechet: The Symbol of Jazz!

We’ve long recognized the leading role jazz played in breaking down racial barriers in the U.S., but credit Sidney Bechet for effecting a rapprochement between the English poet Philip Larkin and...

Erroll Garner

Sheila Jordan and Steve Kuhn

Meditations on Mingus's 90th

Record Store Day or Demise?

Saturday is Record Store Day. I only learned of this in today’s Boston Globe, so I guess record stores, those few in operation anyway, could still stand a lesson in...

Teddy and Hal, R.I.P., Bay State Jazz Natives

Levon Helm, R.I.P.

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