Wynton Marsalis, the game-changing trumpeter who burst onto the scene in the 1980s as a…
Tag: Song of the Day
Virtuoso pianist Avi Adrian releases a new trio album (Gilad Abro – Bass and Israel…
Winner of the San Francisco Bay Area’s first “Jazz Search West Competition” in 2010, W…
On this day in 1931: Drummer Paul Motian is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Motian was…
Trombonist Turre brandishes plenty of chops on his new, mostly ballads disc, ‘The Very Thought of You,’ but the feel is decidedly mellow.
Soul Summit is the combined effort of two of the most hard-swinging saxophonists of the 1960s: Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt.
Sarah McKenzie’s ballad “My True Love is You” gained over 1 million plays on Spotify…
Bruce Lewis aka “Bhuba Bruce Lewis” has been a club/concert guitarist in a 40-year career…
Ralph Hepola is a Scandinavian-American improvising tubaist. A musician who plays the language of contemporary…
The film ‘Green Book’ has generated plenty of awards buzz since its release, but more importantly, it has shined a light on Don Shirley, a tragically underappreciated musician and his body of work.
Jazz legend Wes Montgomery recorded the tune “June in January” for the album The Montgomery Brothers in…
Miles Davis’s Birth of the Cool set the mold for the genre that would come to be known as cool jazz. The trailblazing trumpeter and his musical partner, the imaginative conductor-arranger Gil Evans, began recording the album on this day — January 21 — in 1949.
Legendary drummer Max Roach was born on this day — January 10 — in North…
New York City-based vocalist, Suzanna Ross, has released her debut album, Bewitched – Not Bothered,…
Cone of confusion is an up-and-coming space-jazz band, based in Sydney, Australia. “High Tide” is…
“Manteca,” by percussionist Chano Pozo and the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Orchestra, served as a prototype for the genre of music that would come to be known as Latin jazz.
“Gabriel Mark Hasselbach is a succinct and lyrical trumpeter/flugelhornist with mad skills across the…
“Where Y’At,” today’s Song of the Day, comes from Trombone Shorty’s 2010 album ‘Backatown,’ which reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz for nine consecutive weeks.
Welcome to 2020, jazz fans. Swing in the new year with this version of pianist…
“Manteca,” by percussionist Chano Pozo and the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Orchestra, served as a prototype for the genre of music that would come to be known as Latin jazz.