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For those of us who got into jazz from a small village in a remote corner of Europe, before the internet, cheap flights, and other luxuries...

Raúl Mao died on February 8th. He had been ill for some time. He was the heart of Spanish magazine  Cuadernos de Jazz , the main reason for ...

I don’t want to impose some agenda on a song. I respect the ability to read the song, to figure out the song’s intentions. Chops need to be ...

On January 23 I marked Django's birthday with an impromptu, off-the-cuff selection of his recordings, and I posted it on Twitter . His ...

(L to R: Gene Krupa, Babe Russin, Allan Reuss, George Koenig,  Red Ballard, BG, Vernon Bown, and Art Rollini Carnegie Hall, January 16,...

Not very good video, not very good audio, and the same old jokes. Still, it's Dean, Sammy, Frank, at the Copa Room of the Sands Hotel, ...

Auld, Goodman, Williams, Christian (Photographer unknown) Things that just happen: the previous blog was about Charlie Christian an...