jazz

Today is the first annual Inter­na­tional Jazz Day. Led by Her­bie Han­cock, a good­will ambas­sador for UNESCO, the cel­e­bra­tion is aimed at rec­og­niz­ing of the con­tri­bu­tions of jazz to music and cul­ture. Events will take place through­out the world. Han­cock spoke about the cel­e­bra­tion this morn­ing on CBS This Morn­ing. You can learn more about […]

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Sound Providers – Jazz at the Cove   Bonus Tracks Sound Providers – Autumn’s Evening Breeze   Sound Providers – Brag­gin & Boastin (Instru­men­tal)   Sound Providers – It’s Gonna Bee (Remix Instrumental)  

Grow­ing up, we had a small cot­tage on a lake just out­side of town. My step­fa­ther always seemed to have jazz play­ing on the reel-to-reel. (Remem­ber those?) Though I didn’t nec­es­sar­ily appre­ci­ate the music when I was younger, I paid atten­tion. Miles Davis always appealed to me because of the bright­ness of his horn. I […]

An artist who really needs no intro­duc­tion – the late, great Ella Fitzger­ald, The First Lady of Song. Here are a just a few of my favorite songs by Ella. I really loved her ver­sa­til­ity. Check out this two-part biog­ra­phy on Ella. Are you a fan of Ella Fitzger­ald? What are some of your favorite songs?

Puerto Rican-born sax­o­phon­ist Miguel Zenon. I’m bummed that I just missed Miguel’s per­for­mance here in the DC area yesterday.

I have really become a fan of stream­ing music with Pan­dora and Slacker Radio. One of the things I enjoy most about these ser­vices is the intro­duc­tion to new (to me) artists. Over the week­end I was lis­ten­ing to a sta­tion I cre­ated called “Chillin” and a great vocal came through. I was mov­ing around […]