Jazz Chronicles

Just back from a great 10 days at Italy's Siena Jazz Workshop, and beginning to put together my notes for a feature I'm writing for ...

I received a few requests to post the playlist I used to accompany the full lecture that is prefaced in the previous entry. Here it is: Ph...

I'm leaving tomorrow for 10 days at the Siena Jazz Workshop , where I'll be both participant and observer. In addition to researchin...

Well, the numbers are in, and it looks like Canada's second-oldest jazz festival isn't about to climb out of the $80,000 hole it cre...

Daniel Lanois always brings his best home. Last time he visited the city of his birth it was with a crack quartet that cooked at a slow bo...

Saturday evening's one-time-only meeting of iconic trumpeter/composer Kenny Wheeler, pianist Myra Melford, alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon...

In the 26 years that I've been attending or, occasionally, working for the Ottawa International Jazz Festival my clearest memories are o...

There were some people who had serious misgivings about the viability of the tented stage that the festival inaugurated last year. Immediate...

My seat mate at last night's concert by Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman admitted that he wouldn't recognize it if Mehldau decided to ...

While I'm on the topic of things in the air, the idea of posting mid-year lists of worthy recordings seems to be gaining ground, so allo...

Given what passes for news in some media outlets now, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the 'non-jazz artists at jazz festivals...

So, there was the night in 2006 when a cold rain fell throughout a great show by Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, and I recall trying to re...

Full disclosure: I was never a Led Zeppelin fan. I owned their album III and, of course, couldn't escape them on the radio, but compare...

While I haven't exactly been living outside jazz for the past two months—see my ongoing reviews in DownBeat magazine—my work on a non-m...

There has been debate here and here about the validity of including artists like Elvis Costello, Robert Plant's Band Of Joy or kd lang...

The Jimi Hendrix estate folks announced today that their next series of releases through Sony Legacy will include a reissue of the Band Of G...

Just like poor Mikey, those Italian forces are pulling me back in. In this case, they're Tuscan, not Sicilian, but just when I thought I...

Jazz Chronicles is going on hiatus beginning today. I have a non-music book project that is moving into high gear and won't have any maj...

My friend and former newspaper colleague Peter Hum has ignited a discussion about the rock-star dominated booking policies of some jazz fest...

The first album I ever reviewed—some 33 years ago—was a Gregg Allman LP, so it's nice to circle back and write about another of his solo...