A lot of jazz would not have been recorded if left to the "majors" (Blue Note, Verve, Columbia, Atlantic). That's where ...

Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra New Orleans Owls THE  DUPLEX  MYSTERY JAZZ HOUR of 2/18/16 features music recorded i...

Whew. A non-academic book about jazz that references Rimbaud, Schopenhauer, Brahms, Proust, Faure... Larry Kart,  author of Jazz in Searc...

Trumpeter Carmell Jones, featured on the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour,  WZBC , with Steve Provizer 02/04/2016 05:00PM to 06:00PM LISTEN H...

I had an interesting session with trumpeter, pianist, composer, arranger, minister, writer, educator Mark Harvey on the 1/28/16 Duplex My...

On the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour, wzbc.org , 90.3 fm,  01/14/2016, we heard music from Woody Herman's First Herd. Great soloists inc...

Without jazz, would "standards" be standards?  Fact is, jazz musicians took-and continue to take-a body of music rooted in late ...

The Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour of 12/31/2015 featured some of the great plunger mute players in jazz. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST J...

Abdal Karim-Billy Higgins At this historical juncture in the U.S., it's not a bad thing to recognize the great music contributed by...

Chris Rich was the guy who started this blog. His first post was on 7/18/09. His posts concentrated on musicians like Matthew Shipp , Bill...

It's fall. Linger in the splendors of maple, ash and birch. It may help you infuse winter's stark chiaroscuro with some warmth. For ...

Hef and Armstrong This program, broadcast on 10.1.15, features music associated with Playboy , either recorded for their record label , ...

I just read an advanced copy of Playboy Swings  by Patty Farmer. There's a quality of flackdom about the book-lots of exclamation mark...

Jazz on TV is, of course, a non-starter. Programs like "The Sound of Jazz," "Frankly Jazz,""The Subject is Jazz...

In honor of Charlie Parker's birthday, here's the tune Donna Lee, with my lyrics below. You're all invited to think of me as th...

Playing pre-war music from some of the denizens of 52nd St. on the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour WZBC with Steve Provizer 08/27/2015. LI...

The second of two Duplex Mystery Jazz Hours devoted to Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, broadcast 8.21.15 on WZBC.ORG. LISTEN HER...

I'm still cold from last winter, so the idea of rounding the corner into autumn is not thrilling. I invite you to luxuriate in these b...

The first of two Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour programs on the large ensembles of Fletcher Henderson who, along with arranger Don Redman, is la...

Very glad to see that the  holographic  techs and entrepreneurs have expanded the  resurrection of dead musicians  into more than just...