Jazz Chronicles

Thirty-eight years ago, in the March 30, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone , critic Stephen Davis began a review of Jimi Hendrix's Hendrix In ...

Someone asked me the other day for the full list of the output of Keith Jarrett's American Quartet so they could follow along. Here it i...

Saxophonist Jane Bunnett and trumpeter Larry Cramer are taking their Art Of Jazz Festival on the road this summer, leaving the red-brick urb...

Bill King announced via Facebook this week that he is discontinuing the National Jazz Awards program that he began in 2002 (picking up from ...

In some ways, Expectations —released on Columbia Records in 1972—is something of a ringer in the catalog of Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet...

Recorded by George Avakian at the same July 1971 sessions that produced El Juicio —the debut release by Keith Jarrett’s so-called American Q...

Keith Jarrett has become so identified with his so-called Standards Trio with Jack DeJohnette and Gary Peacock, and his on-again, off-again ...

As noted here , I spent my teens immersed in electric blues music as purveyed by The Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Winter, Paul Butterfield a...

Jason Gross at PopMatters has a long and thoughtful overview of the past year in music journalism, which includes some sharp insight on the...

Preparing for my immersion in Keith Jarrett's so-called American Quartet I realize that I am missing two pieces of their official catalo...

Where else but New York City can you feel so completely immersed in music talk and actual listening that you can imagine yourself in a world...

Once the festival season ends, it's a lonely life for those of us in the jazz industry outside New York City. Time was—as uninviting as ...

I blogged way less about Cecil Taylor than I had intended to in 2009, as I worked my way through a couple of dozen of his recordings from 1...

Here's my contribution to the Village Voice 2009 Jazz Poll : Top 10 2009 1. Vijay Iyer Trio – Historicity (ACT) 2. Miguel Zenón – Esta P...

What is the definitive Top 10 list of jazz recordings— The Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll —will be published in this week's edition of ...

When you're a freelancer there are two kinds of Christmas/New Year's seasons: quiet, which does not bode well for the early February...

I've had a few inquiries about this year's list of best concerts. Well, a look back over the past 71 posts on Jazz Chronicles will ...

Three thin-but-vital volumes have been on my bedside table in recent weeks. Two are by friends—Mark Miller's biography of pianist/compos...

Once again this year, Francis Davis is co-ordinating a year-end critics poll of best CDs for the Village Voice , so my list will be delayed ...

Big buzz circulating this week about the future of Jazz.com in the wake of founding editor Ted Gioia's decision to step away from the pr...