By Matt Micucci and Brian Zimmerman Here is a collection of well-known tracks and hidden……...
Tag: Charles Mingus
When CDs were all the rage, who would have guessed there’d be a vinyl resurgence?……...
A reissue of a classic quartet recording finds Charles Mingus at his uncompromising best. “Good……...
I first encountered Charles Mingus in 1972, when he brought his band to the Brown……...
Versatile, volatile and extraordinarily gifted, Charles Mingus left a musical legacy as compelling and complex……...
As stellar American jazz musicians traversed Europe, they often took their places onstage among boom……...
The Jazz Standard, a popular Manhattan jazz club that was founded in 1997 and for…
The editors of JAZZIZ have the good fortune of being able to listen to new…
As so many of us continue to work and stay at home, we hope you’ll…
The first time most people caught a glimpse of musician and producer Don Was, he……...
Matt Ulery is best known as a modern jazz bassist and composer based in Chicago….…...
Saxophonist Steve Wilson rose to prominence in the Young Lions era and has been featured…
Winner of the San Francisco Bay Area’s first “Jazz Search West Competition” in 2010, W…
Bass great Charles Mingus recorded tracks from his album The Clown on this day (March 12) in…
Happy Birthday to singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who was born on this day (November 7) in…
JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: Actor Michael Imperioli on Jazz, Creativity and Co-Hosting the JFA Loft Party
Joining the podcast today is actor, writer, director and longtime jazz fan Michael Imperioli, best…
On this day (September 17) in 1962, three titans of jazz — Duke Ellington, Charles…
August 17, 2019, marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis’ Kind of…
Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Elvin Jones on the same recording? Yes, it happened. And…
There was no one in jazz quite like bassist Charles Mingus. An iconoclast, an intellectual,…