These amazing (even now) improvisations are the seed core of all jazz. We learned most of them off by heart in our schooldays, but it’s still refreshing to come...
Former Tomorrow’s Warriors, J-Life and Panacea pianist Robert Mitchell is a highly cerebral and learned fellow. When we spoke for this interview, for example, his discursive conversation ricocheted dizzyingly...
Jazz Journal readers will be saddened by the death of Alun Morgan. As an obituarist noted, "Alan’s articles and sleeve notes served as an indispensable companion to several generations...
In 2004, Reva Marin was a finalist for the Fleck Award for the best book in the category Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. Her entry was Oscar: The Life And Music...
Fifty years ago, Derrick Stewart-Baxter interviewed the man who, apparently coincidentally, produced a scat-singing parallel to Coltrane. First published in Jazz Journal December 1970
This is a live studio performance by a group of mainly veteran Chicago bluesmen led by Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston and fronted by Willie Dixon, who sings several of...