The crowd sings "Happy Birthday" to Lee Konitz after his 90th Birthday celebration concert. My coverage is at Artsfuse.org H...

I was joined on the DuPlex Mystery Jazz Hour of 12.28.17 by Martin Torgoff , author of  Bop Apocalypse; Jazz, Race, The Beats and Drugs ...

There were a lot of transitions and innovations in pop and jazz singing during the 1950's. Some of these were triggered by technology...

I dedicated this edition of the DuPlex Mystery jazz hour to the good people of Alabama who, in the election of 12.12.17 pulled us back fr...

Will Friedwald has written a nice fat, fact-laden book, closely analyzing each song on the 51 albums he's chosen. Comparing his respon...

These songs are suffused with an introspective, melancholy and somewhat rueful quality that distinguishes them from the music of other seaso...

The DuPlex Mystery Jazz Hour of 11.2.17 featured the stellar trumpet and vocals of Bunny Berigan. He had great range, power, flexibility and...

There's a very big difference between a room with jazz and a jazz room.      `                                   In a room with jazz...

The Duplex of 10.19.17 featured the work of the great drummer Sid Catlett. As the playlist shows, he could play in any jazz style and ma...

One of the fascinating aspects of the "new" jazz music of the mid-late 1950's. was the background of its creators. Three spe...

On the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour of 10.12.17, I played music of drummer Billy Higgins. He was a joy to watch, as he really seemed to love eve...

On the 10.5.17 edition of the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour, WZBC , we sample an eclectic mix of 70's Boston Jazz, courtesy of my guest Di...

There aren't that many categories for song tempos in jazz: up/fast, medium-up, medium, medium-slow and ballad/slow, but the permutations...

There's an ancient trope musicians share while they're tuning up. After a few minutes of slides and mouthpieces being manipulated ...

                        We jazz folk like to emphasize the fact that the music has provided a fertile playing field, if you will, for int...

I hear a lot about this entitled generation of kids. The lazy buggers don't woodshed for 12 hours a day learning Charlie Parker solos ...

On this edition of the DuPlex Mystery Jazz Hour of 9.21.17, we hear some of the music of Eddie Jefferson.  Eddie was one of the prime inn...