When You Get There.....

Jorrit Dijkstra  (Alto Sax/Lyricon)  Pandolis Karayorgis   (Piano)   Jeb Bishop  (Trombone)  Mary Oliver  (Violin/Viola)  Jason Roebke  (Bas...

With the wintery blast taking hold of Chicago (and the rest of the U.S) I decided to use some of the time I had indoors to put together a mi...

Over the past week, I have been listening to a few discs from the Masters of Jazz  series of tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray . The disc sta...

It has been a while since I last checked in. Here are a few albums that have been making the rounds. When I stumbled upon ...

Columbia University's WKCR 89.9FM is commemorating the life of Tenor Sax/Flautist Frank Wess with memorial broadcas t from 6pm Thursda...

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...

For those of you interested in jazz oral histories be sure to check out the  Hamilton College Jazz Archive . A couple of hundred interviews ...