Archives for September 9, 2005

The Jazz Refugee Project in Phoeniz, Arizona, is offering relocation aid for musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The project, set up by the drummer R. R. Phaneuf (aka DrSnazzy), makes this offer: Once you are part of the Jazz Refugee Project, we will help connect you with shelter, food, … [Read more...]

Dick McGarvin writes from Los Angeles: Your blog about watching the silent television images of the New Orleans disaster while listening to Miles' recording of "Basin Street Blues" was quite moving. And, having played that recording many times, I could hear it without even taking the album off the … [Read more...]

Richard Tabnik writes: heard the 'new' bird and diz? amazing...if that had come out 60 years ago, the entire concept of saxophone would be different whew! From the August 8 Rifftides posting: Throughout, Gillespie’s control, range, harmonic ingenuity, melodic inventiveness and time—above all, … [Read more...]