Re-create  Blue . Study up on "satire," so I know it when I see it. Humbly accept my cultural irrelevancy. Kickstarter cam...

On the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour on 12/25/14 I played music by Billie Holiday, work by influences like Louis Armstrong and Lester Young a...

Bob Dylan got the jump on us with his cover project , anticipating the 100th birthday of Mr. Sinatra, but  we at  The Institute  will jump...

Broadcast on the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour of December 4, 2014. LISTEN TO N.O. OMNIBUS Louisiana Five "I Ain't-en Got-en...

After my recent interview with Sheila Jordan, Jeff Turton made this comment: "She sang at my wedding and I always loved "You Are M...

It was my pleasure to play music by Sheila Jordan and interview her on the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour of 11.13.14. You can get her biogra...

Throughout my long playing career (if you can call it that), I have been fed any number of what now seem like crackpot breathing directiv...

A recent short piece in the New Yorker (they call it a "casual") brings us back to the shift in how this magazine and other ...

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...