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Jazz at the Super Bowl – The Good Old Days!
For most viewers today, the Super Bowl halftime show means pop spectacle: global stars, elaborate staging, and tightly choreographed medleys designed … Read more
From Room 335 to On Solid Ground: Larry Carlton’s Long Road Back After 1988
For most musicians, being shot in the neck and losing the use of one arm would be career-ending. For guitarist Larry … Read more
2026 Grammy Awards – The Jazz Winners
The 2026 Grammy Awards reaffirmed something essential about jazz: it is both a living tradition and an unfolding future. Across the … Read more
Gospel Jazz: 10 Singers Who Took Music From Church to Club
Many of jazz’s most expressive vocalists were shaped long before they ever stepped onto a bandstand. They learned to sing in … Read more
Nina Simone Turned Grief Into A Black Pride Anthem
“To Be Young, Gifted and Black” is often described as an anthem. And it is. But that word can flatten what … Read more
The Girls in the Band: Reframing the History of Women in Jazz
For much of jazz history, women instrumentalists have existed in plain sight while remaining largely absent from the official story. They … Read more
A Rare Gathering: The 1965 Berlin Jazz Piano Workshop
Footage from a 1965 concert in Berlin captures has been hailed by many as the greatest piano jazz summit ever documented … Read more
The 1938 film which introduced Django Reinhardt to the UK
In 1938, British jazz audiences were about to encounter something they weren’t prepared for. Jazz in the UK was still largely … Read more
WordPress Jazz: 2 Decades of Releases
OK, this is a little niche — but stick with me… This website (like roughly 40% of the internet) runs on … Read more
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