Jazz Chronicles

November approaches—a point driven home by the enormous, air-filled pumpkin on my neighbour's lawn—so it's time to look back over th...

Jessica Pavone: Songs Of Synastry And Solitude (Tzadik) – Violist Jessica Pavone is an artist who appears able to balance multiple streams...

When lists of pivotal discs (those that introduced a vital new voice or important new movement in music) are published, Cecil Taylor's 1...

Looking back over recent posts on Jazz Chronicles , I'm shocked to see that it has been a full five months since I introduced my plan to...

This summer was a cruel one for the New England Conservatory (NEC); the Boston-based institution lost two of its stalwart faculty members in...

Two of Canada's most creative musicians—Roberto and Michael Occhipinti—are heading to their parents' birthplace to receive the prest...

Has there been such a spate of notable music deaths in the past three decades? I can't recall such a bad spell. Some deaths, like those ...

No proper vacation this year; not even a stay cation. Unexpected, major, non-music project kicking in, however, so posts will be light—if no...

Until July 27, BBC 3 is featuring a long, illuminative interview of Keith Jarrett by fellow pianist Ethan Iverson. As noted by my colleague...

Some lead, some follow... at least that's the usual tradition in music. For every Miles Davis—who grabbed the reins of leadership after ...

A Facebook post by music writer Mikal Gilmore this morning has me thinking about music that sounds both totally foreign and strangely famili...

We're into the post-festival dog days — always prime listening time. Here's what's on my playlist right now: The Henrys — Is Thi...

Here's the official news release about the welcome re-birth of JazzTimes : Madavor Media Acquires JazzTimes With the mainstream media sw...

As reported by Ben Ratliff in the New York Times , Jazz Times will soon be back in circulation, thanks to its purchase by a Boston-based p...

A week after would-be music journalist Jeff Heinrich set off a viral storm with his hatchet-job on Maria Schneider, another Canwest writer h...

Sad news this morning that one of Canada's leading jazz enthusiasts and a passionate oral historian of music in Montreal has died. Len D...

I don't know what triggered this memory this morning, but I suddenly started thinking about albums I distinctly remembered hearing for t...

My view of the 2009 TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival often seemed somewhat circumscribed by my duties in the media cube ad...

Just hours after I joked that The Bad Plus should change their name to The Bad Weather (the air was chilly and the sky dark during their sou...

Nothing gets under my skin much more than people who diss music criticism without naming names. Oscar Peterson and Ron Carter are two high-p...