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By the autumn of 1940, Benny Goodman had undergone his first back surgery and was already on the mend. He had put his orchestra on hold for ...

Jean-Marie Peterken and Nicolas Dor present Jazz pour Tous! The wonders of European TV archives never cease. Besides the more recent ...

In this week of jazz centennials (Mercer Ellington on the 11th, George Avakian on the 15th, Lennie Tristano on the 19th), today we celebra...

Today it's the 100th anniversary of Charlie Christian's birthday. For a special 2h30m programme we've done (in Spanish) in El C...

Sinatra at The Sands —  all pictures (except record covers) by John Dominis/Getty Images “It was probably the most exciting engagement I ...

If you’re a regular reader of these pages, you may know that Bob Brookmeyer is one of my favourite musicians in any style or instrument. I...

Just a couple years younger than Charlie Parker, and also faring from Kansas City, Frank Wess was one of those excellent musicians poorly ...

Everybody's been doing it for over 60 years: The discreet charm of combining the summer resort with a feast of live jazz and other musi...

(This is a translation of my review for Cuadernos de Jazz ) Charlie Christian: The Genius of the Electric Guitar (4-CD set, Sony/Legac...

I come from a small town in Northern Spain, in the Basque Country. Although we had a good jazz festival nearby, in San Sebastián, music-w...