Eyal Vilner Big Band • The Jam
Scott Yanow
July 31, 2022
Alto-saxophonist and arranger Eyal Vilner, who was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, moved to the US in 2007 and formed what became one of New
New Chris Barber 6 CD Box Set Includes 105 Unreleased Tracks
Scott Yanow
July 30, 2022
Chris Barber (1930-2021) had a very long, productive and influential career. After brief periods playing the violin, cornet and clarinet, he settled on the trombone
The Eighty-Seven Years Of Doc Cheatham
Scott Yanow
July 30, 2022
Adolphus Anthony “Doc” Cheatham (1905-97) had a rather unusual career. Although inspired early on by King Oliver and Louis Armstrong, the technically skilled Cheatham spent
Bob Wilber’s The Six
Scott Yanow
July 30, 2022
In the early 1950s, Bob Wilber (1928-2019) was having a musical identity crisis. He had been a protégé of the masterful Sidney Bechet during 1946-48