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In honor of the 100th anniversary of Benny Goodman's birth, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra revisits the bandleader and clarinetist's historic 1938 Carnegie Hall concert, performing hits such as 'Sing, Sing, Sing' and 'King Porter Stomp.' Joining...
The mass of tables normally found in front of the stage at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts were no where to be found last night. And it was a good thing they were gone. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band was in town, and that area was...
Ornette Coleman's second important release of 1959 was recorded in Los Angeles fifty years ago today. Coleman began his lengthy collaboration with bassist Charlie Haden in a session that resulted in the prophetically titled The Shape of Jazz to...
He's the big man with the big baritone horn in the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Roger Lewis took a few minutes to talk with me last week as he recovered from a busy New Orleans Heritage Festival. The DDBB hits the road this week for yet another busy...
One year ago today I made one of the best decisions of my life and married Nancy. We celebrate our anniversary today, and I wanted to be sure to post my love, respect and devotion for her on the blog. It's been a strange and wonderful year, and having...
I found this site via some other jazz research that I was doing and I find it to be an outstanding resource for current information. Looking forward to reading from it going forward.
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