Michael Gregory Jackson Clarity Quartet: Whenyoufindityouwillknow
By any measure, guitarist and singer Michael Gregory Jackson seems to have had a pretty eclectic musical history. On signing to Island for his pop/rock album Situation...
Don Joseph, jazz poet /2
Another Greenwich Village venue that Don played was the Nut Club, where Phil Woods held court with Jon Eardley, Teddy Kotick, Nick Stabulas and either George Syran...
Still Clinging to the Wreckage 08/19
Swing to the left
During the 1930s, and particularly around the time of the Spanish Civil War, it first became fashionable to profess to...
Desire In Chromatic Harmony
Kenneth Smith has a brilliant new approach to understanding chromatic music. To grasp it, an academic background in music but also in philosophy...
JJ 09/89: John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson, Peter Erskine
In the June ’89 edition of France's Jazz Hot, Abercrombie spoke of his desire to achieve here a democratic balance comparable to that achieved within the famous...
Bolden
I learned everything I know about Buddy Bolden from Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya, the one indispensable book about jazz from soup to nuts, co-edited by Nat...
