Scenes from the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival Last summer, for the first time since he founded it in 1954, George Wein wasn’t at the Newport Jazz Festival. Traveling from his Manhattan home … Read More “Scenes from the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival”
Ella Fitzgerald Gets Some Air, Thanks to Gregg Field On the enchanted evening of August 16, 1958, Ella Fitzgerald took to the stage of the legendary Hollywood Bowl. There, with a lustrous orchestra conducted … Read More “Ella Fitzgerald Gets Some Air, Thanks to Gregg Field”
JT Notes: Highlights Galore in Our Annual Guitar Issue Forgive me if I’ve mentioned this before (perhaps repeatedly), but I’ve been playing guitar now for more than 40 years. So when the time comes … Read More “JT Notes: Highlights Galore in Our Annual Guitar Issue”
John Scofield Talks His Solo Debut and More Nearly two decades before COVID-19 was even a twinkle in a pangolin’s eye—if in fact those endearing critters had any coronavirus connection at all—John Scofield … Read More “John Scofield Talks His Solo Debut and More”