Jazz Chronicles

Okay, by now, it's past cliché to note what a rotten year it has been for deaths in the music world. I think back to a grim afternoon co...

I usually try to hold off on posting my top 10 recordings of the year until Francis Davis's authoritative round-up poll, which includes ...

Almost seven years ago, a trip to Portland, Oregon, for that city's jazz festival took me to Powell's, the incredible used bookstore...

It has, of course, become a tiresome trope to say that jazz is dead or dying. The proof that nothing could be further from the truth—CD sale...

First, an embarrassing admission: I didn't know trumpeter/composer Kenny Wheeler was a fellow Canadian until about 1979. In my naiveté, ...

If you grew up listening to music in the 1960s, you believed in the magic that could come only from a recording studio. Despite the dominanc...

Never one to resist the latest web trend, especially when the days are long and slow, I'll throw in my bids for the recordings that have...

Whenever the topic of Keith Jarrett comes up between me and my wife—not an unusual occurrence, given how he is one of the few jazz artists w...

Few artists who attract rabid fans have bifurcated careers that divide those followers like John Coltrane. Even his longtime employer, Miles...

Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: Somewhere (ECM) – The pianist’s so-called Standards Trio marked its 30th anniversary with a l...

"Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive." Those words are a touchstone phrase of Bruce Springsteen's heroic "This Hard Land...