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Seth MacFarlane became one of the youngest executive producers in television history when Fox premiered…
A long lost live album from the First Lady of Song; the return of an…
In April of 1923, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band filed into the tiny Gennett recording…
Using a rather primitive recording device — a suction-cup microphone attached to a telephone receiver,…
In Michael Jarrett’s book Pressed for All Time, excerpted in this article, pioneering producer and…
It’s a sensation familiar to many jazz fans: An album catches your eye from a…
The first time most people caught a glimpse of musician and producer Don Was, he…
Charles Tolliver was a relative unknown when jazz scenester Jim Harrison first heard him during…
Before bassist Brian Bromberg received his first GRAMMY nomination, before he had a single hit…
An exploration of the creative freedoms of the trio format; a top jazz vocalist’s return…
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.
Dion (left) with producer Wayne Hood. Dion has released a new album, Blues with Friends, featuring…
Guitarist John Scofield discusses his new album Swallow Tales on ECM Records, which features compositions…
Celebrated keyboardist-composer Chick Corea has had his hand in many styles of music: bebop, post-bop,…
Legend has it that when Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival,…
While the blending of jazz and rock aesthetics had started years before, the 1970s was…
Against a background of full-throated endorsement by Wynton Marsalis and more compliments from the rest…
The following interview is derived from a conversation between Bob James and JAZZIZ Editor and…
Bob James is best known as a progenitor of smooth jazz. A two-time GRAMMY Award-winner,…