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Al Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) is widely regarded as the premier singer of the pre-World War II dance band era in

A codified solo provides the audience with the experience of hearing something they’ve become familiar with through recordings. Jazz musicians, among themselves, have always loved

It’s easy to think that the group of songs we call “Standards” and the “Great American Songbook” emerged with a quality of “timelessness” directly from

Bobby Hackett remains one of my musical heroes, and I cherish his recordings, the few times I saw him in person, and the sound of

This is part two of historical highlights of the Hall Brothers Jazz Band. Part one can be found in the December issue of TST, read:

The year 2020 will go down in jazz history as the one in which live music was silenced and dancing stood still worldwide. But it

In my opinion, King Oliver doesn’t really receive the credit he is due. He’s all too often treated as a “stop along the way” for

January 10, 2021, Another Milestone Anniversary Not To Be Forgotten The centennial of the Jazz Age is upon us, and it has been commemorated with

Born in 1996, in Louisville, Kentucky, Matthew Rivera is making jazz vibrate to new audiences in many ways. I met him first as a sound-phenomenon

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Here in the UK, speech isn’t entirely free. The right to offend whomever we want isn’t enshrined in statute, as in the US Constitution. We

A chronological list of all of our final chorus remembrances from 2020.

If one does not recognize the name of Coot Grant and her vaudeville partner Kid Wilson, aka Sox Wilson and other aliases, one can be

“No time to find excuses for sounding like crap anymore”. Drew says while practicing on his self-tuned 1934 Lester Studio Upright made in his hometown,

This is part one of a two part series chronicling the Hall Brothers Jazz Band. Their story is an important and essential part of the

In 2020 millions of musicians have experimented in creative ways out of necessity, making new and old technology their instrument. This is especially true in

It’s November now and the Pismo Jazz Jubilee has come and gone. The event was a success by all accounts and we are able to

The late music writer and producer, Stanley Dance, shared the opinion, common in the East, that “Los Angeles was a wasteland dominated by the bad

The wonderful vocalist Banu Gibson (“First Lady of the Bayou,” TST, September 2016) is a great friend and it is always a privilege to share

Larry Karp (1939–2016), whose last completed project was his biography of Brun Campbell, based it on a critical discussion of Brun’s autobiographical statements. (Numbers in parentheses

A banjo-centric conversation with Hal Smith and John Gill Multi-instrumentalist and bandleader John Gill (“Traditional Jazz’s Stomper-in-Chief,” TST, April 2020) has an encyclopedic knowledge of,

I took up the clarinet at the age of nineteen. I am totally self taught and do not read music. In fact, I play the

Let’s face it, the jazz scene, as most of us knew it, was never the same after the advent of television. In Boston where I