On his version of "Along Came Betty" by another jazz great who passed this year, Benny Golson, Quincy's smooth writing and well-drilled musicians make silky, muted brass pop. (SOUNDBITE OF QUINCY ...
Bill Frisell has fine-tuned the tension in his life. That’s not to suggest his existence is somehow fraught — far from it; his demeanor is contemplative, avuncular, searching — but rather the ...
The Nation on MSN8d
Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the ...
Bob Perkins, 91, of Wyncote, the jazz DJ whose sonorous, deeply relaxing, and reassuring voice on the Philadelphia airwaves ...
The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...
The rest of the album is a blend of originals and reinterpreted standards by the likes of George Gershwin (“Embracable You”) ...
Since the 1980s, the John H. Baker film collection has gone unseen and been in cold storage deep within a former limestone mine ...
A new recording features pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe Henderson in a concert taped in New York City in 1966. The ...