All This Is That

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By Jack Brummet, American Music Ed. I am reading Mezz Mezzrow's autobiography, " Really The Blues. " This Jewish kid fell...

By Jack Brummet On Facebook, a friend asked us to come up with 12 jazz albums thatr stuck with us, or made a difference. Here are mine...

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed. Miles Davis with a) Carlos Santana and b) Kenny G. I'd had the Miles/Kenny G photo for a long time, but ju...

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed. This is such a gorgeous song.   How often does a song so beautifully capture the whole story of its [one word] t...

By Jack Brummet, American Music Ed. Reading American jazz clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow's biography  ' Really the Blues'  ton...

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed. In 1961, Louis Armstrong was on a State Dept. tour of the middle east.  He and his wife Lucille stopped by the...

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed. Air Conditioning is one of my very favorite Charlie Parker songs. I first heard it on a Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie ...

By Jack Brummet, Music Editor   Buddy Rich's famous temper and domineering personality were secretly recorded by the pianist Lee Musi...

H appy [posthumous] Birthday to Dizzy Gillespie.  I was lucky to see Diz twice--once at the Village Gate on Bleecker St. and once at the Pa...

A recording of the Milo Petersen Trio at Jack Straw Studios in Seattle, WA 9/20/08. I've known Milo ,a/k/a Chris, since we were one yea...

A Tradition Jazz concert by Eliana Burki on the Alphorn and her band comprising Arnaud Francelet (Bass), Samuel Siegenthaler (Guitar), Adri...

“The 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time - Our [amazon.com] editors put their stamp of approval on the 100 best-ever albums from the ever...