It’s not true jazz until you take it out into the world and dirty it up with a bit of improv. On Thursday at the Dillon Dam Brewery, the Summit High School jazz band will do just that, playing a free ...
The other day, I was watching an old video of the great Carmen McRae in which she was asked the hoary question, “What is a jazz singer?” Jazz singers, said McRae, make a song their own by rephrasing ...
At 91, jazz cornetist Jack Fine thought his rambling days were done. As he tells it, he was a cop in New York and a musician in Paris. He survived three plane crashes and ran a mob-connected club in ...
When I was 16, I enthusiastically confessed to my guitar teacher that I wanted to become a professional jazz musician. After the lesson, he told my mother: “Don’t let him do it. He’ll be doomed to a ...
It's hard to believe that a guitarist as fine as France's Sylvain Luc has been so overlooked by supposedly comprehensive music sites like All Music Guide—especially with albums like today's ...
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