When You Get There.....

As a youngster just getting into jazz, Mike Nock (b. Sept 27, 1940) was the first New Zealand jazz musician I was aware of who had "m...

The preparation of this post was accompanied by Coltrane's "classic quartet" performance of "Out of this World" at t...

Over the last few weeks a couple of Soul Note releases from Steve Lacy -  Only Monk  and More Monk (from 1985 & 1989 respectively) - ha...

This feature on Cannonball Adderley (b. Sept 15, 1928) was Barbara Gardner's first column for Down Beat. According to John Gennari's...

Here's a feature article on Sonny Rollins from the July 10, 1958 issue of Down Beat magazine. Rollins talks of the struggle of juggling ...

John Carter & Bobby Bradford Quartet:  Flight for Four   (Flying Dutchman) This album has been sitting on my "to listen to" ...

This is Ted Panken's transcription of Ed Scarvalone's interview with Max Roach on WKCR-FM from January 22, 1979. The discussion foc...