In the first half of 1955 Miles Davis was in a much better shape...
BOOKS
In the mid 90s I was browsing in the bookstore at Berklee College of...
As Alan Gershwin told the story – often – he was hidden away at...
Listening to John Coltrane, it’s hard not to become transfixed by his playing. He...
Yesterday, I came across an interesting documentary about alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and thought...
I love crawling around through the ducts at YouTube. The video site is a...
Somewhere out there in the Detroit region there are unreleased tapes of Terry Pollard....
Over the weekend, I was in Los Angeles on assignment for the WSJ. While there,...
A previously unheard Miles Davis recording is set to be released for the first...
At her vocal peak in 1966, Nancy Wilson was the very picture of grace...
Mention the 1970s to jazz fans and many will think of the jazz-rock fusion...
Great American Songbook composers, Harold Arlen (nee Hyman Arluck, 1905-1986), composed music for over...