The Jazz Standard, a popular Manhattan jazz club that was founded in 1997 and for…
Tag: Charles Mingus
The editors of JAZZIZ have the good fortune of being able to listen to new…
This year’s Record Store Day, the annual extravaganza celebrating and supporting independently-owned record stores, is…
As so many of us continue to work and stay at home, we hope you’ll…
The first time most people caught a glimpse of musician and producer Don Was, he…
Matt Ulery is best known as a modern jazz bassist and composer based in Chicago.…
Saxophonist Steve Wilson rose to prominence in the Young Lions era and has been featured…
Winner of the San Francisco Bay Area’s first “Jazz Search West Competition” in 2010, W…
Bass great Charles Mingus recorded tracks from his album The Clown on this day (March 12) in…
Happy Birthday to singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who was born on this day (November 7) in…
JAZZIZ Backstage Pass: Actor Michael Imperioli on Jazz, Creativity and Co-Hosting the JFA Loft Party
Joining the podcast today is actor, writer, director and longtime jazz fan Michael Imperioli, best…
On this day (September 17) in 1962, three titans of jazz — Duke Ellington, Charles…
August 17, 2019, marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis’ Kind of…
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Elvin Jones on the same recording? Yes, it happened. And…
There was no one in jazz quite like bassist Charles Mingus. An iconoclast, an intellectual,…
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
Betty Carter (Photo: Jack Vartoogian/DL Media, Inc.) Betty Carter, a charismatic singer who imbued her…
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…
Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented…