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Multiculturalism can be a fraught idea in music. Best case, you get a rich cultural exploration that respects and enriches each tradition it touches...
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Just as you might be starting to ponder holiday gift ideas, Amazon and Columbia Records have teamed up to deliver what will surely be righteous...
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You young punks think you invented club jazz. Well, lemme tell you -- back in the day (early 1990s), there was a little thing called acid jazz that...
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NPR's jazz blog has an interesting project going in which various authorities recommend five recent jazz albums that will help newcomers develop an...
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Yes, he's the man who made Charlie Brown dance. But there was a lot more to San Francisco native Vince Guaraldi than a knack for enlivening cartoons....
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SFJAZZ is getting ready to release a double-CD documenting the recent tour by this year's version of the SFJAZZ Collective, an annually evolving group...
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A hearty thanks to the Philadelphia Inquirer for cluing me in to the sublime music and awful life of jazz singer Jackie Paris, an overlooked genius...
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Gee, if only someone would make a list of important Bay Area jazz performers and performances. Yeah, a thoughtful, well-researched list. That'd be the...
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While keyboardist, bandleader, composer and all-around eccentric Sun Ra mostly divided his time between Chicago and the East Coast, he had multiple...
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If you only know alto saxophonist John Handy as a sideman, you don't really know John Handy.Sure, he's a nimble backing player on numerous significant...
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