http://nyti.ms/14kaYCs Recently, controversy has arisen over our efforts to introduce young people to the joys of rock throwing. Many ...

  Author John Szwed , who has also done bios of Miles Davis and Sun Ra,  does an excellent job of delineating the work of Alan Lomax; work...

Brew reminds us that this year marks 20 years since the death of Dizzy Gillespie-one of the great souls of jazz.  Some time ago, I wr...

There's an ongoing discussion in jazz about the playing vectors represented by Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke and how these manifes...

Where does jazz fit in the post-Newtown discussion about violence and popular culture?  While not really in the mix now, jazz has historic...

I recently posted about Booker Little and trumpet player/blogger Ian Carey commented: "interesting that he got that fat "1C...

From the biggest stars to those playing off nights in coffeehouses, musicians do have the power to effect change in this culture, by rais...

There is much to fascinate here.  It's rare to find a book with so much information which also reads so easily. Marginal Jazz fans wil...

Joe's one of our (Boston) boys. His career exemplified some of the larger themes of 50's trumpet playing: an early start, bop infl...

Don Fagerquist was t he first focus of our attention in this series about lesser-known brilliant trumpet players of the 1950's. If Fa...

Don Fagerquist Blue Mitchell I started off with the idea of looking at a few of the less well-known trumpet players who came of age ...

Just want to point B.C. readers to this video I uploaded to You Tube. This is the well-known Charles Mingus song with my lyrics. (I have put...

...we went to a restaurant. Last Year

The u-readers of B.C. seem to have an unquenchable thirst for bad jazz art . Heeding that siren song is not just my duty, it is my way out o...

I had business in the Tip O'Neill Federal Office building here in Boston. In case you haven't been to a federal building in a w...