Miles Davis is justly celebrated for his harmonic sense, his tone, his style, and his ever-changing musical career. However, we rarely hear about Miles the composer. Nonetheless, many of his ...
Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie teach at the Stanford Jazz Workshop in 1981. Courtesy Stanford Jazz Workshop. Back in 1972, when Jim Nadel was a recent graduate jamming with friends at the Stanford ...
'We didn't have big incomes and I was asking Kathy to take risks to finance these records' ...
In 2020, to celebrate JazzTimes’ 50th anniversary, we made a bold (some would say foolhardy) call: the top 50 jazz albums of the past 50 years, according to our critics. It turns out that JazzTimes ...
The clarinet is one of the most important instruments in the foundation of jazz, from its early progenitors Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, Edmond Hall and George Lewis to such later famed ...