Jazz Music News
Read Around The Jazz Internet: May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012 – Ten albums for newbies, the hated Cabaret Card and composer/arranger Gil Evans' centennial.
Listen The Harmonica-Playing Baron Of Belgium WBGO
May 18, 2012 – The jazz master Toots Thielemans turned 90 this year. In Brussels, the celebration is on. WBGO
Listen Cecil Taylor: The Pianist Who's Also An Orchestra
May 17, 2012 – At 83, the great rule-breaking improviser is celebrated for developing a unique musical language.
Listen Gil Evans, Essential Jazz Arranger, At 100
May 13, 2012 – Famous for his work with Miles Davis, Evans brought orchestral colors and textures to jazz.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: May 11, 2012
May 11, 2012 – "Cookie cutter" students, young musicians in New York and the history of jazz in India.
Read To Revive A Jazz City, A Philadelphia Musician Stages A Festival
May 5, 2012 – The efforts of a 28-year-old trombonist resulted in the city's most important day for jazz in years.
Listen In New Orleans, A Health Clinic For Working Musicians
May 5, 2012 – The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic caters to artists without insurance who can't afford to miss work.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012 – International Jazz Day in review, a conversation with Cecil Taylor and Blue Note's Don Was ... is.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: April 27, 2012
April 27, 2012 – Herbie Hancock's International Jazz Day, veteran bassists profiled and ghost bands carry on.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: April 20, 2012
April 20, 2012 – Five musicians named Doris Duke Artists, jazz as survival and Jazz Samba's 50th anniversary.
Read Why Tax Day Is Even Worse For Musicians
April 16, 2012 – The contradictions between art and business are set into relief by the U.S. income tax code.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: April 13, 2012
April 13, 2012 – Supporting a beloved saxophonist, plus a blogathon, a list of award nominations and a second chance.
Listen In D.C., A Bastion Of Black Entertainment Returns
April 8, 2012 – The Howard Theatre, the center of what was once dubbed "Black Broadway," reopens this week.
Read Around The Jazz Internet: April 6, 2012
April 6, 2012 – BADBADNOTGOOD makes people angry, Jack DeJohnette is celebrated and a Bill Evans documentary.
Listen Reviving James Booker, The 'Piano Prince Of New Orleans'
March 31, 2012 – An upcoming film examines the man many called New Orleans' best pianist in a hundred years.
