1. Need something to listen to when on infinite hold with Verizon. 2.  Hard to imagine Kenny G. playing the baritone.  3.  Your passport...

Jazz radio doesn't stand a chance unless DJ/programmers can attract listeners in the new mobile-device-dominated listening environmen...

As I said on the air, we can all use a little chill right now.  Here's the show .

A reader finding an old post and wanting to post a comment about it can be a dose of c od liver oil to a blogger. You re-read the old post...

Fifteen of us in the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band ( SLSAPS ) were in Rome last week to play in Sbandata Romana ,...

Hemingway-or Charlie Sheen Ernest Hemingway Foundation, your efforts to rebrand the novelist's image have not gone unnoticed.  OK, ...

The Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour ( 6-7 PM, WZBC 90.3; stream: WZBC.org)  is s tarting a new series  "I Know the Name, but Why Should I car...

The Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour with Steve Provizer 05/16/2013 06:00PM to 07:00PM Listen here. Miff Mole "Sugar Foot Strut"...

The marketing orgy  at Brilliant Corners Merch, Inc. marches on! Inspired by  t he Thelonius Monk  Round Midnight watc h , we provided ...

As everyone knows, this was a dismal week here in Boston. The denouement could have been much worse, and we should be grateful for that, but...

"What, me? Worry. Jazz and hip comedy."  6-7 PM WZBC 90.3 FM, stream:  wzbc.org   Featuring Lenny Bruce, Nichols and May, Shel...

When asked 'what is jazz?' Louis Armstrong said; “If you have to ask, then you'll never know." Thi...

Here is the file of my program of March 21, 2013 that explored the roots of scat singing which, according to no less an authority that J...

Some jazz blogs are straight ahead educational: "Download transcribed solos by Brownie, K.D. Miles, etc." God bless these people....

Mute regrets, I've had a few. Like, Why did the great Roy Eldridge start using a harmon mute? Roy's tone was a pile-driver; epic...

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