When You Get There.....

It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to get through the entire set before heading back to work. We’ll see I guess. In the meanw...

More Billie Holiday on Columbia was on the menu this morning. The box set contains so many songs that you never hear these da...

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings  (Columbia) It was hard to go wrong kicking off week 3 with a classic. ...

Lately I've been listening to a few contrafacts (tunes written on the chords of other tunes).  For the most part I have been looking for...

I've spent this week at the  Jazz Institute of Chicago 's  Straight Ahead Jazz Camp . A weeklong series of workshops aimed at jazz e...