Art Tatum, Lonesome Graveyard ODJB, Skeleton Jangle Clifford Brown, I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance L,H&R, Halloween...

Ask improvising musicians whether they would rather have an audience sitting and listening intently or up on their feet dancing and I'...

Friends, I’m very pleased to tell you that my radio theatre piece “The Amazing Story of Strange Fruit” is being released. I won’t overl...

The online conversation around jazz, BAM, improvised music, whatever you want to call it, seems to have shifted. I see far fewer pieces th...

My personal predilection is for early to middle-period Sarah Vaughan. Her voice was golden from beginning to end, but I believe the amoun...

Several improvised solos in the Basie band's "April In Paris" became codified. Codification: when a solo is played alm...

My personal response to global warming; as heard on my show, the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour, Thursday, July 3, 2014 on WZBC, 90.3, WZBC.ORG....

My guest on the 6/26/14 edition of The Duplex was Tom Curry, co-founder with Bob Porter of the Phoenix Jazz record label and host of his ...

Jazz, R&B and blues from 1940's-50's L.A, played on the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour with Steve Provizer on 06/19/2014. Audio a...

Did FIFA  ban  vuvuzuelas because of  noise pollution? I doubt that. T he decibel-meter already pins out at international soccer matches; ...

Dad and I at the beach, w. Mom's shadow overlaid as she snaps the photo My father Max went to work early, as his family lost its ...

Commodore Records, which grew out of the Commodore Record Shop in Manhattan, was the brainchild of Milt Gabler . Gabler was the first to...

If you missed the Duplex Mystery Hour that played long-form works of Ellington-and Strayhorn-on Thursday June 5, 5-7 PM. check out the...

The reflected glory that people are sponging up by associating themselves with famous dead painters , musicians , etc. and which is now s...

The history of jazz is complicated and resists a simple through-line narrative. It arose as a beautifully haphazard cross-pollination b...

We at the  Institute  blush at having to play catch-up in the competition to provide John and Jane Q. Public with new, stylish aids to tour...

A much-delayed spring has cautiously crept into Boston. The Duplex playlist of 5.8.14 celebrates that. Download it, put it on your MP3 pla...