Let’s see just how far off the beaten tracks I can go in this column! If your 78 RPM collection casts its net wide enough
Spain has an abundance of traditional jazz that would surprise most Americans. Enric Peidro brings players from America including Jonathan Stout, Glenn Crytzer, and Dan
The Wit’s End Brass Band is a large community band in New Orleans “gathered and guided” by Shaye Cohn of Tuba Skinny. Founded in 2012,
All I know about The Rag Messengers is that they hail from Montpellier, France, and play New Orleans jazz as hot as the weather there
Down for the Count is down for anything. The UK based collective includes 30 musicians on call in various formats, all of them within this
A reader suggested this album to me just in time for summer and I’m glad they did! I was expecting just another ukulele album but
It’s time I went off the beaten tracks again. I’ve made a point in this column of covering bands from Europe, Asia, Australia, and South
Harriet Choice died on July 13th, she was 82 years old. In 1968, she became the first jazz critic at the Chicago Tribune had ever
Where jazz came from has been a compelling topic for over 100 years. It is hard to picture now, but in the 1920s there was
For 14 years retired public school music teacher Dr. Ed Cannava has led the Denver Jazz Club Youth All-Stars, a traditional and classic jazz focused
DIXIELAND TRAD JAZZ CRUISE (Roundtrip Seattle to Alaska) July 9-16 Rocky Mountain Rhythm and Swing, an all-star trad jazz group. Several shows from Cowboy Country
Jazz drummer Jackie Williams died on Sunday, June 11th, he was 90 years old. Born in Harlem in 1933 he lived and played in New
One of the great Chicago jazzmen, clarinetist Kim Cusack, died on June 2nd at 84 years old. Ten days earlier he appeared at the final
Bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto has died at 83. She was best known for the Stan Getz’ English language recording of “The Girl From Ipanema”,
Pianist George Winston died on June 4th, in California. His albums Autumn, Winter into Spring, and December were huge sellers for Windham Hill Records in the early 1980s. In
This is a set that every Syncopated Times reader should become familiar with. Remember those? Back when every fan shared a cannon of material they
When Gunhild Carling says she comes from a musical family she doesn’t mean her dad owned Kind of Blue. Her childhood was closer to the
The Barrelhouse Wailers are a hot jazz and blues outfit from Ventura, California. They’ve played together since 2013 and Never Look Back is their third
SCOTT JOPLIN RAGTIME FESTIVAL (Sedalia, MO) – May 31-June 3 More than 6,000 people attend the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival each June, turning downtown Sedalia
Harry Belafonte, the man who more than anyone brought calypso to the masses, died in April. His 1956 alum, titled simply Calypso, was the first
Chris Strachwitz died on May 5th. Born in 1931 in what is now Poland and displaced at the end of WWII his family settled in
