Less is more when searching! If you search Joe “King” Oliver you will not see any results for King Oliver without the quotation marks. If you search Joe Oliver you will not see any results for King Oliver where the first name was never used. For best results search by last name alone.
20th EVERGREEN JAZZ FESTIVAL (Evergreen, CO) – July 28-30 The 20th Evergreen Jazz Festival is set for July 28, 29, and 30. Known for its
JAZZ CLASSIC OF THE MONTH Rod Mason (1940-2017) may not be a household name in the U.S. but he was one of the top traditional
When Alex Pangman sings, you hear the echoes of past singers joyously delivered as if she were a contemporary of greats like Lee Wiley and
If Louis Armstrong and his manager Joe Glaser had decided to put out a personal ad for a trombonist in 1952, it might have read
DIXIELAND TRAD JAZZ CRUISE (Roundtrip Seattle to Alaska) July 9-16 Rocky Mountain Rhythm and Swing, an all-star trad jazz group. Several shows from Cowboy Country
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
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
The Pfister Sisters (Holley Bendtsen, Karen Stoehr & Yvette Voelker) had it right with their hit song about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival!
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.
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
In 2007, I came across a batch of poor-quality transfers of African American films from the 1940s. One title, Boarding House Blues (1948), stood out
Cornetist Jimmy McPartland and pianist Marian McPartland were married for 22 years (1945-67). Their careers in jazz, if taken together, spanned a remarkable 90 years,
AHOY VINTAGE CRUISES: Matt Tolentino and his Singapore Slingers (Southampton, UK – New York, NY) May 18-26 A Transatlantic Ragtime Romp with Matt Tolentino and
Trombonist Will Bradley, drummer-singer Ray McKinley, and pianist Freddie Slack only teamed up together for a relatively brief period of time, 18 months during 1939-41,
Johnny Dodds was born April 12, 1892, in Waveland, Mississippi. Johnny spent his childhood steeped in music, with his father, uncle, and sister playing various
There aren’t many musicians still around who began their careers in the late 1940s. Far fewer have the incredible memory of bassist Bill Crow, who
One of the great frustrations in studying early jazz is trying to understand how the music sounded near its beginnings. There is not only a
Upon seeing his name, complete with umlaut, you might assume multi-instrumentalist T.J. Müller is of German heritage. You’d be mistaken. And with the first few
The saying “you can’t keep a good woman down” might well have been inspired by the Swedish Queen of Swing, Gunhild Carling. She is bouncing
Jeff Barnhart: Hal, this month we’re listening to and discussing the music of a really hot, and polished, band from New Orleans. The New Orleans Owls
The great pianist and composer André Previn once said, “Stan Kenton can stand in front of a thousand fiddles and a thousand brass and make
“Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtime Band,” a short piece in the Red Hot Jazz Archive (now hosted on syncopatedtimes.com), recalls a dramatic event in the
Since 1976, Vince Giordano has led one of the most authentic-sounding small big bands in 1920s jazz, an 11-piece orchestra that really sounds as if
Of all of the swing era bandleaders, Glenn Miller had more hit records than anyone else in the jazz world, more than Benny Goodman, Artie
