Jazz Music Blog

I’ll be playing Benny Golson’s 1962 quartet recording Free in tonight’s Jazz a la Mode, a complement to last week’s golden anniversary feature on

Art Farmer holds a special place in my heart.  In 1978, the trumpeter was the first musician I ever interviewed on the radio, and he proved to be as gracious and responsive as one

Nat Hentoff encourages us to “Listen to the Stories” in a book of that same name published in 2000.

We’ve long recognized the leading role jazz played in breaking down racial barriers in the U.S., but credit Sidney Bechet for effecting a rapprochement between the English poet Philip Larkin and th