How smart TVs, projectors and other video gear can expand the jazz experience
Hot new sound gear steals the Consumer Electronics Show
JT's sound guru recommends the year's best products
Brent Butterworth on great gifts for any jazz lover on any budget
The vinyl record is on the scene again in a big way and Brent Butterworth explains how to get in the groove
Producer/arranger/saxophonist Bob Belden argues that surround sound is ready for another opportunity
Brent Butterworth's roundup of the industry’s best boutique audio gear
Thanks to the iPod, headphones have undergone an explosion of innovation. Here’s our guide to new models worth wrapping around your head
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas isn’t just about hot new TVs and cell phones—it’s packed with great new audio gear, too
Brent Butterworth culls the most outstanding audio gear of 2009
Some fear that today’s weak economy will be the Grinch that steals the 2009 holiday season. Audiophiles, though, can rest assured of a happy December. While you might not emerge from your front door on Christmas day to discover a Maserati wrapped in a big...
Converting your records to MP3 files is easy, thanks to innovative new hardware and software
Nearly three decades after their birth, CD players are still evolving.
Flip through a few magazines from the 1970s, and you might conclude that men were judged by the size of their stereos. Indeed, a towering rack (or two) of stereo gear once seemed as mission-critical as bushy sideburns and a Qiana shirt. While abundant facial...
Quick—name three jazz artists. Who’d you pick? Bird? Miles? Hub? It’s a pretty safe bet you didn’t pick Jimmy Cobb or Paul Chambers. Great as they are, they’re best known as sidemen. They seldom get the recognition that the hotshot saxophonists and trumpeters...
Some music fans just hate movies. And after perusing a few of Hollywood’s recent tours de force, who among us would blame them? Still, it seems unfair to pamper your ears with Charles Lloyd’s latest while giving your eyes nothing to savor except a few liner...
Brent Butterworth has been writing about consumer electronics since 1989. Besides writing about audio and video for JazzTimes, he is a contributing technical editor to Sound & Vision magazine, and has worked as an editor for Home Entertainment, Home Theater, Video magazine, and others. He studied jazz at the University of North Texas and at the Drummer's Collective in New York City. His jazz performance experience includes a few years playing the Chapman Stick in saxophonist David Aaron's group Short Memory, plus occasional gigs and sessions on his first love: the ukulele.
Brent Butterworth joined the JazzTimes community on Dec 10, 2008
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