This blog has had over 500,000 hits since its inception. Brilliant Corners was started by Chris Rich, who first posted on 7.18.09. I took ...

Have a jazz/R&B/funk/soul/gospel trip through the holidays on the  Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour, WZBC.ORG , 12.22.2016. LIS...

The DuPlex Mystery Jazz Hour of 12.15.16 on WZBC.ORG featured Fred Katz (1919–2013), who may have been the most accomplished cellist jazz...

Trumpeter Lee Morgan was a bravura player on up-tempo tunes, but also a master at medium-slow and ballad tempi. The DuPlex Mystery Jazz Hour...

On the DuPlex Mystery Jazz Hour of 12.1.16 I played a variety of music offered by the Victor record company in 1927-jazz, jug band, blues, ...

Here's some of the music rattling around in my brain a week before the November 8, 2016 elections. What's in your brain? ...

Most of the best ballads are covered endlessly, but somehow, a few beauties have managed to slip the noose and have not been ground into dus...

Jazz tunes that I think were made for the jukebox, on the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour , 7/14/2016, 5-7 PM. i give you a little bit of jukebox h...

Mingus-Part I, Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour, WZBC.ORG. Program aired on 6.30.2016. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST Lionel Hampton and His Orchestr...

In How to Listen to Jazz,   Ted Gioia has tasked himself with writing a book that asks people to drop their musical prejudices and ope...

Lonnie Johnson A quick look at the early great jazz guitar players, aired on the DuPlex Mystery Jazz Hour of 5.5.16. Check out the pla...

In  an interview , Charles McPherson talks about the influence Charlie Parker had on trombonist Jimmy Knepper. I nod internal agreement, but...

There's been an enormous response to the death of Prince. An internet search leads me to think that he's been eulogized in every maj...

Writer-director-producer Don Cheadle took this gig seriously. The cinematography, costuming and editing of the film are strong and Cheadl...

I went to a show at the Outpost 186 on 3.24.16. The group was an adventurous cohort that included:  Charlie Kohlhase/Alipio C. Neto – saxes...

Many Irish-Americans have been great jazz players. A partial list would include: Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Bunny Berigan, Larry Binyon, Dic...

Tab Smith The Duplex Mystery Hour of 3.10.17 on WZBC  featured important alto players from the 20's and 30's: Trumbauer, Redman,...