Lew Shaw’s Jazz Beat Now Available on Amazon

Lew Shaw’s  Jazz Beat: Notes on Classic Jazz is now an e-book/print on demand paperback. First published in 2013 it includes forty-seven recent profiles of current jazz greats selected from the countless that Lew Shaw has published. As he said in announcing his sabbatical from The Syncopate Times to complete the forthcoming second volume, JAZZ BEAT ENCORE: More Notes on Classic Jazz, "these musicians are deserving of wider recognition and exposure beyond the readership of a single monthly publication with limited circulation." His hope is that the book will be a more stable vehicle for preserving these important profiles and allow them to reach new audiences as time goes by. The contemporary jazz musicians he covers have "interesting and reflective stories to tell that can only broaden a jazz fan’s appreciation of what it's like to play music for a living as well as gain a better understanding for what is happening on the bandstand." These profiles were published mostly in The American Rag, the newspaper which preceded The Syncopated Times.  They will not be available online in our archive for the foreseeable future. To read them you'll need to buy the book. The profiles, which often followed multiple interviews or substantial personal acquaintance, delve deeply into the experiences of artists from several generations; Ed Polcer, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jim Cullum, Pat Yankee, Bria