Ewan Bleach: Jazz a ‘Rave Scene, but with Live Music’
Dave Doyle
May 31, 2023
Jeff Barnhart: This month we’re starting a two-part discussion about the music of the Dixieland Jug Blowers from the mid-1920s. I’ll freely admit I’ve only
A jazz musician from any part of the world is to be admired for keeping the art form alive. And 22-year-old Anastasia Ivanova is always
We first met, Jazz and I, at a dance hall dive on the Barbary Coast. It screeched and bellowed at me from a trick platform
He was one of the hottest trumpeters to emerge from the late 1920s, a major attraction at jam sessions, and a superb blues singer. But
Since looking back to when I taught jazz history courses at the Community College of Rhode Island, I have come to realize that my coverage
My mother wanted me to move back in with the family. It was 1974. I was eighteen and already had been living on my own
When I started pursuing the legendary scrapbook that once belonged to Fred Hager, one of the aspects of this ultimate treasure was a steamer trunk
The Pfister Sisters (Holley Bendtsen, Karen Stoehr & Yvette Voelker) had it right with their hit song about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival!
At the West Coast Ragtime Festival last November I met for the first time Ray Skjelbred (pronounced SHELL-bred in case you haven’t heard it before),
Today when I ask younger people where they first discovered ragtime, I get a lot of answers relating to the popular recording media of their
Guy Lombardo was born Gaetano Alberto Lombardo on June 19, 1902, in London, Ontario. Encouraged by their father, Lombardo (who played violin) and his brothers
By now you faithful readers able to wade through my initial meanderings in each column are hopefully anticipating that they (usually) lead to something worthwhile.
Lucian P. Gibson is only known to have composed three works, one of which is The Cactus Rag, published by Stark Music Company in 1916.
James Scott is often the second of the three acknowledged great “classic” ragtime composers with Joplin and Lamb. He was born in Neosho, Missouri, but
As I wrote the thumbnail bio of Guy Lombardo for the Jazz Birthday of the Month today, I had vague feelings of déjà vu. This
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
A little over 100 years ago, if you wandered down to the riverfront in Davenport, Iowa, you might have heard hot music emanating from a
On April 21, husband-and-wife performers Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano brought the buzz they have been creating Saturday nights at Birdland in Manhattan to a
Alaska Memories The fourth of July weekend of 1980 found the NGJB in Juneau, Alaska, on the occasion of the city’s centennial celebration. The band’s
Vol.8, No.6 June 2023
Ewan Bleach: Jazz a “Rave Scene, but with Live Music”, by Dave Doyle
Anastasia Ivanova: Russia’s Rising Jazz Star, by Garry Berman
Glenn Miller and Me, by B.A. Nilsson
Jazz Birthday of the Month: Guy Lombardo, illustration by Joe Busam
Static from my Attic, by Andy Senior
Jazz Travels: Reflections of Ray Skjelbred, by Bill Hoffman
My Inspirations: Sausage Baps and Tribute Bands, by Jeff Barnhart
Ragtime Vignettes: The Cactus Rag, by Brandon Byrne
Quarter Notes: Down at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans!, by Shelly Gallichio
What Was in Frederick Hager’s Trunk?, by R.S. Baker
Jazz in San Francisco: 1916-1966, Pt. 1, by Dave Radlauer
Rudiments of Ragtime: Installment Six – James Scott, by Larry Melton
Profiles in Jazz: Hot Lips Page, by Scott Yanow
Blowing off the Dust: How KRMA Taught Educational TV, by Larry Melton
Ain’t Cha Got Music: A Little Jug Music (1926-27), by Jeff Barnhart & Hal Smith
Final Chorus, compiled by Joe Bebco
Hot Jazz Returns to the Upper Mississippi in 2023, by Hal Smith
Festival Roundup, compiled by Joe Bebco
The Swing Era: Reconsidering the Music and the Timeline, by Lloyd Kaplan
Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano: Cabaret in Cleveland, by Brian Sheridan
Doyle’s Discs, CD reviews by Dave Doyle
Nights at the Turntable, CD reviews by Scott Yanow
Off the Beaten Tracks, CD reviews by Joe Bebco
Bert’s Bits and Beats, CD Reviews by Bert Thompson
Rhythm Man by Stephanie S. Crease, Reviewed by Steve Provizer
