Jazz Chronicles

Reflecting the life of a mercurial jazz musician in a static museum exhibit seems like an impossible feat, and it's true that some of We...

After a busy spring, I’m finally back to my immersion in the music of Keith Jarrett’s so-called American Quartet. It’s proven to be a timely...

A year ago, Jazz Chronicles was bemoaning the growing list of music festivals that were being slammed by the global recession. It's so ...

Word came today via Doug Ramsey that Gene Lees – former DownBeat editor, prolific liner note writer and biographer, and talented lyricist –...

For local readers, a couple of May events to take note of: On May 6, my friends at Ottawa JazzWorks will be staging a fundraiser at Arts Cou...

John McLaughlin was the first jazz musician who I could relate to when I gingerly stepped across the great divide between rock and jazz in 1...

Ottawa does not have a particularly lively jazz scene most of the year, but it does have an annual jazz festival that year after year has on...

Once again this year, I've been contracted to serve as the media specialist for the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival. This year mar...

I only knew music journalist Mike Zwerin for about 10 years, but he was an influence on my work for three times that long. Mike never fully ...

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...