By Matt Micucci and Brian Zimmerman Here is a collection of well-known tracks and hidden……...
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The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
“At least one day out of the year, all musicians should just put their instruments……...
Originally published on March 17, 2023. Don Hunstein’s iconic photograph of Duke Ellington and Billy……...
Originally published on June 3, 2022. By Bob Weinberg Few practitioners have changed the way……...
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 print edition of JAZZIZ Magazine. By Kevin……...
There are two ways to look at trombonist Christopher Crenshaw’s six-part The Fifties — A……...
Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” is well known as a harmonically intricate and melodic masterpiece. Jazz…
On this date in 1932, vocalist Bing Crosby, at just 29 years old, recorded this rendition of “St. Louis Blues” with the Duke Ellington Orchestra for Columbia Records.
That long-touted “special relationship” between England and the United States extends from politics and humor……...
Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for the good things in our lives. If you’re…
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On this day (September 17) in 1962, three titans of jazz — Duke Ellington, Charles…
Pianist Ahmad Jamal (pictured) has released a new track from his forthcoming album Ballades, which…
Bandleader and pianist Duke Ellington wrote the jaunty swing piece “In a Mellow Tone” (sometimes…
August 17, 2019, marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis’ Kind of…
There was no one in jazz quite like bassist Charles Mingus. An iconoclast, an intellectual,…
Over the course of its 35-year history, JAZZIZ Magazine would occasionally run exclusive issues dedicated…
“At least one day out of the year, all musicians should just put their instruments…
On this date in 1932, vocalist Bing Crosby, at just 29 years old, recorded this rendition of “St. Louis Blues” with the Duke Ellington Orchestra for Columbia Records.