In a Blue Mood

One of the bands from Kansas City that many remember with fondness with Andy Kirk and the Clouds of Joy. A popular swing band of the thirtie...

A video of Cab Calloway and His Big Band featuring the Nicholas Brothers from the legendary movie Stormy Weather recently was the subject of...

This is a trailer for a film I recently purchased as a download. For those not familiar with Vince Giordano, he has led a small big band,...

Delmark recently acquired the Jump Records label and the first result of this acquisition is a Jump CD release under the name of Zoot Sims...

Lisa Biales has a new recording out on Big Song Music, Singing My Soul . The Ohio based singer, songwriter and guitarist is backed Cincinn...

Stony Plain recently issued “Shivers,” the second collaboration of New Guitar Summit, comprised of guitarists Jay Geils, Duke Robillar...

Sunny Crownover is a Boston based vocalist that grew up[ as a military daughter, although spending much of her life from high school in A...

Claude Williams' Swinging the Blues on Bullseye Blues & Jazz, is certainly a release for loves of blues-laced, swinging jazz. W...

COUNT BASIE Swingin the Blues  Masters of American Music  EUROARTS DVD Among the recent reissues from the Masters of Americ...

I had heard strong things about Dave Gross, a young guitarist-singer who is only in his twenties. Duke Robillard has taken him under his win...

The Washington DC area has long been a hotbed for jump blues and swing dancing. One of the popular bands in the area was The Uptown Rhythm K...

Companion to the DVD of Zoot Sims " In a Sentimental Mood ," MVD Visual has released in the US the Gazell Records DVD of Chet Bake...

MVD Visual has released in the US the Gazell Records video of Zoot Sims, In a Sentimental Mood . This video was filmed in November, 1984, ju...

Ben Webster is generally recognized as one of the major pioneers and stylists of the tenor saxophone, whose beefy, brawny, yet sensuous tone...

Born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1985, Champian Fulton was influenced by her father, a renown jazz trumpeter. Learning piano as a youth, she has ...

The late Joe Williams was one of the great male big band singers from his association with Count Basie, and later remained an extraordinary ...

One of the albums that gives this writer much pleasure is Zoot Sims’ Pablo release, If I’m Lucky, which had a terrific band of Jimmy Rowles...

Arhoolie Records and Alligator Records are not the only important independent labels that are celebrating an important milestone this year. ...

The quintet, Shout Sister Shout, took its name from a Sister Rosetta Tharpe song and brings together an enthusiasm for the music of the thir...

In the liner notes of “ After Hours in Harlem ” (High Note), a compilation of Hot Lips Page recordings culled from recordings made on a wire...