The year-old label Le Coq Records launched with a “Jazz All Stars” compilation that, true to its somewhat generic name, included a formidable assemblage of … Read More “The Jazz All Stars: Le Coq Records Presents the Jazz All Stars Vol. 2 (Le Coq)”
Jazz is always prominent when the Savannah Music Festival cranks up its eclectic assortment, with diehard jazz fans dropping anchor during Jazz Week, culminating in the … Read More “Review: 2017 Savannah Music Festival”
Lee Morgan’s status as one of hard bop’s masters of the trumpet is beyond question, but his gifts as a composer have perhaps never been … Read More “Terell Stafford: BrotherLee Love: Celebrating Lee Morgan”
Legend dictates that Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington worked together so closely-ping-ponging ideas at marathon writing sessions-that by the time they’d polished off a new … Read More “Terell Stafford: This Side of Strayhorn”
