In a Blue Mood

This is a review that I wrote in Fall 2006 and published in the November-December 2006 Jazz & Blues Report ( Issue 288). I will be posti...

This is my blues column from the November 1976 Buffalo Jazz Report which had Dexter Gordon on the cover to promote his appearance at the T...

There is a myth that there was very little new blues of note recorded in the 1970s. The fact is labels like Alligator, Delmark and Blind P...

Smithsonian Institution’s acquisition of the legendary Folkways catalog served music lovers well by preserving and keeping available the ric...

Looking back on my hard drive I came across this review of an album by pianist Big Joe Duskin. Never having the pleasure to see Duskin, I ha...

My purchase of Carl Sonny Leyland’s “A Chicago Session” (Ventrella) was an impulse based in part on the description of the disc on the new r...