Jazz Chronicles

The tough times just get tougher for the large institutions we traditionally associate with the jazz industry. The latest sign is a financia...

NPR's Fresh Air recently featured a lengthy interview with Wired.com writer Eliot Van Buskirk about the current trends in digital musi...

The Washington Post has a story today (free registration is required) about the death of the "smooth jazz" radio format. While I...

I know a lot of music reviewers who ignore the public relations material that accompanies new releases, but you never know what insights you...

Very sad news about the passing of bassist Dennis Irwin. John Scofield's group with Irwin and Bill Stewart was one of my very favourites...

I'm not sure what spurred this post, except perhaps my Portland discovery of Frank Tirro's Jazz: A History , mentioned earlier. My m...

Okay... enough winter! With more snow than these parts have seen in 17 years (it's official) and another 20 inches apparently on the way...

I don't often praise my native country's public broadcaster for its jazz coverage, which has shrivelled considerably over the years,...

Some days it's hard to maintain faith that the music industry will survive in any recognizable form. It was bad enough — a joke, really ...

The great producer Teo Macero leaves a legacy of enduring studio creations done in collaboration with Miles Davis. The editing work he acco...

During a panel discussion about the future of jazz on Saturday morning at the Portland Jazz Festival I made a point about keeping your ears ...

Sending strength and hope to saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo .... As he reports on his blog, the news is not good, but many people I'm t...

Awards presented by organizations like the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences being what they are, I don't usually put to...

Next to a Duke Ellington short that I saw when I was about seven, guitarist Lenny Breau was the first jazz musician I saw on TV. In the mid-...

Sad news today that saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo is undergoing emergency brain surgery after suffering a seizure last week and being diag...

As a Canadian writing about jazz for U.S.-based publications I often get asked what the "scene" is like here, and who is making in...

The second annual Idolator poll results are now up, if your tastes extend beyond jazz to other sounds. Record labels aren't the only ar...

Among the usual doom and gloom one finds at music conventions these days, one music industry guy who was anything but down at last week'...

It never fails: I start off an IAJE convention with the idea of keeping things in perspective, and as soon as I step onto the conference sit...

Just in case anyone in the vicinity of Toronto does NOT know: January 9 marks the beginning of the annual International Association of Jazz ...