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Bold As Love: Bassist Brian Bromberg Honors the Jazz Legacy of Jimi Hendrix
Before bassist Brian Bromberg received his first GRAMMY nomination, before he had a single hit…
10 Albums You Need to Know: August 2020
An exploration of the creative freedoms of the trio format; a top jazz vocalist’s return…
Dig In: The Essential Jazz Guitar Playlist
Join us on a journey through the evolution of jazz guitar, starting with early pioneers like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt and continuing through to modern masters like Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Julian Lage.
The Wanderer and Company: Singer Dion Returns with a Star-Studded Blues Album
Dion (left) with producer Wayne Hood. Dion has released a new album, Blues with Friends, featuring…
Tales of ‘Sco: Guitarist John Scofield on His Fusion Origins & His New Album, ‘Swallow Tales’
Guitarist John Scofield discusses his new album Swallow Tales on ECM Records, which features compositions…
The Fusion Moment: A Conversation with Chick Corea
Celebrated keyboardist-composer Chick Corea has had his hand in many styles of music: bebop, post-bop,…
When Worlds Collided: A Brief History of “Fusion”
Legend has it that when Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival,…
10 Essential Jazz Fusion Albums
While the blending of jazz and rock aesthetics had started years before, the 1970s was…
Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit: How South African Pianist Nduduzo Makhathini Won Over Wynton Marsalis and the World
Against a background of full-throated endorsement by Wynton Marsalis and more compliments from the rest…
The Sound and the Vision: A Conversation with Bob James
The following interview is derived from a conversation between Bob James and JAZZIZ Editor and…
The Ultimate Bob James Playlist
Bob James is best known as a progenitor of smooth jazz. A two-time GRAMMY Award-winner,…
A Greene New Deal: Saxophonist Jimmy Greene Finds Musical Refuge in Troubled Times
Although Jimmy Greene recorded his new album, While Looking Up (Mack Avenue), well before the…
Q&A with Thundercat: New Album ‘It Is What It Is’ Helps Us Embrace the Change
Thundercat has climbed up the ranks of jazz-adjacent music over the past decade, growing from…
Bird Is the Word: Quotes By and About Charlie Parker
“I can play all I know in eight bars.” —Charlie Parker “You could look…
Does Charlie Parker Still Matter?
There’s no shortage of commentary proclaiming the significance of the meteoric genius Charlie Parker. Born…
Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz and Vincent Herring: Chairmen of the Bird
Vincent Herring’s concept for the live recording Bird at 100 (Smoke Sessions) was simple: gather…
10 Essential Charlie Parker Recordings
Apart from a trove of bootlegged live performances, Parker made virtually all of his recordings…
Six Artists Influenced By Charlie Parker
From 1941, when Charlie Parker’s first commercially recorded solos (“Hootie Blues” and “Jumpin’ the Blues,”…
Forward Vision: Artists to Watch in 2020
By Jared Proudfoot & Samuel Ngahane Jazz had another bumper year in 2019 with the…
