When the 15th annual Rochester International Jazz Festival concludes on Saturday, July 2, that night’s headliner will be a solid-sending son of old New Orleans.
An indication of Katie Cavera‘s popularity can easily be found by checking her calendar of upcoming engagements, which shows consistent bookings into January 2018. She
We’ve all experienced that innocent (or maybe not so innocent) crush on a teacher, that one instructor we lusted after while struggling through our academic
What if I told you that Grandma Moses (the early 20th century, self-taught, primitive painter) played a hot upright bass in Buddy Bolden’s and Fletcher
When Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle’s Shuffle Along made its Broadway debut in 1921, it ran for an amazing 504 performances and launched the careers
The first-ever New York Hot Jazz Camp is now in the books. It was conceived, organized, and overseen by my good friends Molly Ryan and
My childlike adoration of fireworks is extreme. If you don’t at least like them you probably should be shipped off to the island where I’ve
From the time I was a mere child until the present day, people have felt that they could say anything at all to me. Sometimes
This is the Roundup as it appeared way back in July 2016, for this month’s roundup look for it in our menu or the current
Charles Henry “Charlie” Christian was born in Bonham, Texas on July 29, 1916. After moving the family to Oklahoma City while Charlie was still a
Molly Ryan and Dan Levinson welcomed a daughter – Aven Yetive Levinson – into their family on June 3. According to Dan, Aven is a
Sometimes too much of a good thing is, well, too much. That was the case at this year’s Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia, Missouri.
Like most musicians living in NYC, I am not from NYC. I am from elsewhere. Not elsewhere like the West Coast type of elsewhere; I
The Southern California Hot Jazz Society, whose origin goes back to 1949, finally succumbed to the ravages of age in announcing that it would cease
SIR CHARLES THOMPSON, 98, on June 16 in Japan. A swing and bebop pianist, organist, composer and arranger, he was playing private parties with the
A jazz documentary film called They Died Before 40 has been produced and directed by Howard E. Fischer – the founder of the New York
This announcement of a PDF edition was our first step into digital in July of 2016. We grew from there and our full function website
One evening, when I was working away on the present issue, the phone rang. When I am struggling against time and gravity, I’m inclined to
On June 19 my wife and I were privileged to have front-row seats to hear Cécile McLorin Salvant in concert at the McCarter Theatre Center
When I assert that this is the best time to be alive if you are a jazz enthusiast, I’m not just whistling Dixieland. I am
Former Salt City Six manager Arnie Koch has dubbed drummer and longtime mainstay Danny D’Imperio as “Treasure Hunter of the Year” for discovering the master
Monika Herzig is a performing pianist, educator and author. She has assembled a group of talented women musicians to perform on this recording. She brings
After periods of time as the trumpeter with Stuff Smith’s Onyx Club Boys in the 1930s and as a key member of the Cab Calloway
Echoes of Swing is a European quartet comprised of Colin T. Dawson on trumpet and occasional vocals, altoist Chris Hopkins, pianist Bernd Lhotzky and drummer
The recent revival of 1921’s Shuffle Along, the first Broadway show to be written and performed by African-Americans, is a welcome event. The score by
The 18 recordings of Madame Tussaud’s Dance Orchestra, the 16 best of which are included on Rockin’ In Rhythm, have always occupied an unusual place
Pianist Brun Campbell (1884-1952), a student of Scott Joplin, is the recent subject of a book written by Larry Karp called Brun Campbell: The Original
Vol.1, No.6 July 2016
Richard Dowling and the Definitive Joplin, by Andy Senior
Hot for Teacher, by Ross Konikoff
A Portrait of the Musician as an Artist, by Neal Siegal
Trombone Shorty: Brass Wunderkind, by Russ Tarby
Katie Cavera: Always Sunny Side Up, by Lew Shaw
West Texas Golden Anniversary, by Lew Shaw and Janet Ostrom
Jazz Birthday of the Month: Charlie Christian, by Gary Price
Static from my Attic, by Andy Senior
Jazz Jottings, by Lew Shaw
The Professor is IN, by Adrian Cunningham
Jazz Travels, by Bill Hoffman
Festival Roundup, compiled by Russ Tarby
Final Chorus, by Lew Shaw
Bus – Cab – BOOM!, by Randi Cee
When Louis Met Bix, CD review by Andy Senior
Nights at the Turntable, CD reviews by Scott Yanow
Cécile McLorin Salvant, concert review by Andy Senior
The Whole World in her Hands, CD review by F. Norman Vickers
Broadway Reshuffles Shuffle Along, by Russ Tarby
“Vice Squad” (poem), by Andy Senior
This Is What I Do Now, by Andy Senior
New: Digital Option for International Readers, by Andy Senior