This celebratory reissue includes outtakes that confirm the original’s brilliance and the sense of a genius in transition — John Fordham, The Guardian Within the same few weeks in the spring of 1959, the great saxophonist and composer John Coltrane astonishingly found the composure to play a key role on one of the most thoughtful […]
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The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan | R.S. Murthi (Web Archive)
By R. S. Murthi, R.S. Murthi (Web Archive) (I found out recently that one of my favourite jazz trumpeters, the prodigiously talented and prolific hard-bop stylist Lee Morgan, was shot to death in 1972 by a considerably older woman with whom he was living at the time. He was 33 and apparently on the verge […]
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Music icon Miles Davis remembered ahead of 94th birthday on SiriusXM’s ‘Real Jazz’ | The St. Louis American
The Miles Davis Estate and the Jazz Foundation Of America will present “A Miles Davis Birthday Celebration,” on SiriusXM’s ‘Real Jazz’ (67) this Friday, May 22 at 7 p.m. CST. The three-hour music special, highlighting the music of Miles Davis as curated by SiriusXM’s Mark Ruffin and guest DJ’s Erin Davis, Vince Wilburn, Jr. (Miles Davis Estate) and Steve Jordan (JFA), will benefit and […]
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10 Women in Jazz Who Never Got Their Due | The New York Times
By Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times We’re often taught to think of jazz’s history as a cavalcade of great men and their bands, but from its beginnings the music was often in the hands of women. Listen to some of the greatest. Young, female instrumentalists have been establishing a firmer footing in jazz, taking […]
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Why Crown Royal is telling a story of Jazz, love, and tradition | Vimeo Blog
What does it mean to build community through art, and uphold a tradition that goes unbroken for decades? When the team at Stept Studios pitched the Diageo brand about the story of Marjorie — a woman in Harlem who hosts a weekly Sunday Jazz concert in honor of her son’s memory — they knew she lived her […]
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Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist and father to Wynton and Branford, dies aged 85 | The Guardian
New Orleans star, who was admitted to hospital with Covid-19 symptoms, saluted as ‘giant of a musician and even greater father’ Ellis Marsalis, the jazz pianist who fathered two of America’s most celebrated jazz performers in Wynton and Branford Marsalis, has died aged 85. He is suspected to have died from the Covid-19 virus, after […]
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The Hunting of Billie Holiday | Politico
How Lady Day was in the middle of a Federal Bureau of Narcotics fight for survival From his first day in office in 1930, Harry Anslinger had a problem, and everybody knew it. He had just been appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics—a tiny agency, buried in the gray bowels of the Treasury […]
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Jimmy Heath, 93, Jazz Saxophonist and Composer, Is Dead | The New York Times
Jimmy Heath, a tenor saxophonist whose sharp and lively compositions became part of the midcentury jazz canon — and who found new prominence in middle age as a co-leader of a popular band with his two brothers — died on Sunday at his home in Loganville, Ga. He was 93. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] His grandson Fa […]
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Fifty Years of Worship at the Church of John Coltrane | The New Yorker
Franzo and Marina King had recently moved from the Midwest to San Francisco when they decided to celebrate their first wedding anniversary by going to hear John Coltrane play at the Jazz Workshop. It was 1965, and the saxophonist was in the midst of a radical transformation, infatuated with a style of playing that was […]
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Why MLK Believed Jazz Was the Perfect Soundtrack for Civil Rights | Daily JSTOR
Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”
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