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...plus a special bonus Louis Armstrong recites "The Night Before Christmas" in 1971....
Snapshot This week's video: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five....
Snapshot This week's video: Louis Armstrong and Martha Raye in "Public Melody Number One," staged by Vincente Minnelli....
Image #31 When Al Hirschfeld drew Louis Armstrong....
Snapshot This week's video: the George Shearing Quintet....
Jazz masters in the Azores With Lee Konitz and the Hot Club of Portugal on a mid-Atlantic island...
Richard M. Sudhalter, R.I.P. A tribute to an artist, scholar, and friend....
Snapshot This week's video: the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, with Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone....
Who's who on NEA Jazz Masters panel Previously named NEA Jazz Masters and a couple of ringers select new Jazz Masters, based on what criteria?...
Snapshot This week's video: Nat "King" Cole with Coleman Hawkins and the Oscar Peterson Trio....
R&R from A to Z How does a tired opera librettist relax? By listening to Al and Zoot....
Coming up for air I wrote two chapters of my Louis Armstrong biography last week....
Oscar Peterson, further considered Readers take issue -- I hear music . . ....
Oscar Peterson: Consolidator, conservator The piano colossus exemplified jazz's essences -- without probing their implications or extentions...
Glance back: Jazz beyond jazz in 2007 Notable events and turning points not only about new and unusual music...
And the band played on I find it all but impossible to believe that nearly two decades have gone by since I met Maria Schneider....
What it's all about I don't think there can be such a thing as a definitive biography of a great man....
Ecstasy I've been dreaming about my Louis Armstrong biography, which I restarted on Wednesday after a six-week hiatus....
stomping something sacred in new orleans Police have cracked down on funeral processions, a time-honored cultural tradition in the historic black neighborhood of Tremé. But musicians...
Mateusz Kolakowski He uses his classical technique to soar through wild improvisations without orbiting away from his jazz values......
Web-based jazz orchestra support: the Maria Schneider phenomenon Independent composer's "fan-funded, overbudget" ArtistShare album Sky Blue is better than half-paid for, after three weeks of web-only release....
$2k advance for a booklength jazz history? Surely you jest! Do subsidized profs taking too-low advances spoil small independent and university publishers for freelancers ? A pointed (but polite) exchange...
Jazz portrait photographer goes cubist "Jazz in New York: A Community of Visions" tops 400 portraits -- Lourde Delgado's new approach boasts a dozen facets....
Blasts from the past Here are my 12 favorite big-band recordings, as of this minute, subject to change....
new orleans: obama speaks, jazz doesn't At the Essence Festival in New Orleans, Barack Obama gets the Superdome main stage but jazz gets shut out....