Jazz’s best journalists ask questions and jazz’s best artists answer them.
This year marks the 40th year of Mark Ruffin’s career as a jazz broadcaster and writer. Since 2007, Ruffin has been the program director of … Read More “Mark Ruffin: The Storied Intersection of Jazz, Baseball, and Race”
In a video pulled together by Kendrick Scott and posted on social media during the pandemic, 39 top-notch jazz drummers play along, one by one, … Read More “Jeff Hamilton, Drummer’s Drummer”
“The roughest thing is my mom,” Maria Schneider says over the phone on a recent summer morning, answering the first question of almost every conversation … Read More “Maria Schneider: A Tale of Two Worlds”
Alexis Cole represents a new generation of jazz artists and entrepreneurs forced by a worldwide pandemic to help themselves and their community. The new world … Read More “Alexis Cole: Teaching & Learning”
Los Angeles-born and bred, Billy Childs has built a remarkable career as a pianist, composer, and arranger largely away from the New York jazz scene. … Read More “Billy Childs Reveals the Influences on His Album Acceptance“
When Bill Frisell answers my FaceTime beep, the amount of hair I see through the laptop screen is more significant than I was expecting. He’s … Read More “Bill Frisell Is a Rambler in Quarantine”
As Thurston Moore stepped onto the narrow stage at Philadelphia’s Boot & Saddle last December, it wasn’t exactly clear how many people in the audience … Read More “Thurston Moore: Into the Out World”
Archie Shepp will mark his 83rd year on May 24, and will surely have to delay celebrating it in proper style until the coronavirus crisis … Read More “Archie Shepp: Memoirs of a Gunfighter”
Last fall, standing in the Philadelphia construction site that would soon be transformed into the latest of his City Winery franchises, Michael Dorf reflected on … Read More “Remembering the Original Knitting Factory”
