Jazz Music News
Read Jamison Ross Wins 2012 Thelonious Monk Competition For Drummers
September 24, 2012 – The New Orleans-based musician, 24, made clear, precise statements with a lay audience in mind.
Read What Did The Monk Competition Ever Do For You?
September 22, 2012 – Five former entrants of jazz's most prestigious contest reflect on what it meant to them.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: Sept. 21, 2012
September 21, 2012 – Cal Tjader saluted, Pepper Adams reinterpreted and a band parades through the Lower East Side.
Read On The Future Of Jazz Among Black Folk
September 20, 2012 – A panel of musicians assembled by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation had lots of ideas.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: Sept. 14, 2012
September 14, 2012 – Adele's pianist, women in the avant-garde, Indiana jazz history and the 50 greatest saxophonists.
Read A Piece Of Technology That Makes Listening To Jazz Better
September 14, 2012 – The new Spotify app from Blue Note makes sense of the data jumble in which fans lose themselves.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: Sept. 7, 2012
September 7, 2012 – An Ornette Coleman documentary restored, plus the freewheeling Tim Berne and Herbie's Mwandishi.
Listen The Strange Story Of The Man Behind 'Strange Fruit'
September 5, 2012 – Years later, the writer of the iconic Billie Holiday song was tied to another event in U.S. history.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: Aug. 31, 2012
August 31, 2012 – Drummer Jimmy Cobb questioned, a poetic Jazz Passenger and goodbye to bassist Charles Flores.
Read Detroit's Jazz 'Patriarch' Improvised A Teaching Career
August 29, 2012 – A big profile of trumpeter Marcus Belgrave emphasizes how he nurtured Detroit's jazz stars.
Read Could Thelonious Monk Win The Jazz Competition Named After Him?
August 28, 2012 – A debate on the nature of music contests, and a vision of a future beyond them.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: Aug. 24, 2012
August 24, 2012 – The Thelonious Monk Competition, disco jazz and a legendarily wild record label, assessed.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: Aug. 17, 2012
August 17, 2012 – Diana Krall's new album cover, more on the late Von Freeman and Coltrane on Coltrane action.
Read Von Freeman, Chicago Saxophone Godfather, Dies
August 13, 2012 – The tenor saxophonist was iconic in his hometown's jazz community and among aficionados worldwide.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: Aug. 3, 2012
August 3, 2012 – Another round of Newport previews, drummer Michael Carvin and much ado about jazz standards.
