Highlights of the Jazz.com Blog

Below are links to some of the highlights from the jazz.com blog.

Life on the Road: The Journal of a Traveling Jazz Musician: Frøy Aagre’s three-part article may be the most insightful account you will ever read about…

Bud Powell: Un Poco Loco

On “Un Poco Loco,” Max played one of the greatest beats ever on a jazz recording, in the same category as the beat Vernell Fournier plays on “Poinciana,” or the beat that Art Blakey plays on “Pensativa.” Max told me that in …

The Jazz Detective at Work

Will Friedwald has written several articles in this column about the great jazz detectives who unravel the tangled histories of past performances. Now Will puts on his deerstalker hat and tries to solve one of these mysteries on his ow…

In Conversation with Robert Glasper

By Ted Panken

      
                            
Rob…

Remembering Ray Brown (1926-2002)

In conjunction with Christian McBride’s Guest Artist Dozens, focusing on classic tracks by bassist Ray Brown, jazz.com is publishing Ted Panken’s conversation with the two bassists from 1996. T.G.

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Sonny Rollins: I’m an Old Cowhand

Even before I got a chance to really thoroughly understand what Ray Brown was doing, if there was one record everybody knew, and knew well, it was Way Out West. That was kind of the gold standard for pianoless saxophone trios. I remembe…

The Best CDs of 2009

I’ve been making a list, and checking it twice. Okay, I admit it, I made two lists, and only checked them once. In any event, you know what that means – it’s time for the best of year picks.

First up, my selections for t…

The Great Frim-Fram Mystery

During his exhaustive research last June into “The Strange Case of Nat King Cole,” jazz.com’s self-styled sleuth Alan “Woodstein” Kurtz uncovered startling evidence debunking the myth that the lyrics to Cole’s 1945 hit “The Frim Fra…

Why Jazz Fans Should Avoid Illegal Substances

What if your great moment in jazz arrived, and you slept through it. Walter Kolosky relates the story below. T.G.

My approach to the appreciation of jazz, and all the arts, has been shaped by a series of illuminating personal exp…

Anita O’Day on DVD

Thomas Cunniffe covers the world of DVDs for jazz.com. His most recent review here looked at Charles Mingus’s Epitaph and Town Hall Concert. Now Cunniffe turns his attention to two videos featuring the late vocalist Anita O’Day. T.G….