Howard Mandel
Jazz journalism online, virtual reality book party
I’m inordinately proud of the new JJANews website because it makes easily accessible the videos, podcasts, articles with photos and online-realtime activities of the...
“Supermusician” Roscoe Mitchell’s paintings
Roscoe Mitchell — internationally renown composer, improviser, ensemble leader, winds and reeds virtuoso who has pioneered the use of “little instruments” and dramatic...
Armstrong in Chicago 100 years ago sparked jazz
Lest we forget: In 1922 Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago from New Orleans, with his wife Lil Hardin,
mentor King Joe Oliver and colleagues...
Electroacoustic improv, coming or going? (Herb Deutsch, RIP
As the year ends/begins, I’m thinking electroacoustic music is a wave of the future. But maybe it’s been superseded by other synth-based genres —...
I saw Jimi Hendrix three times
On the 80th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s birth, memory and legacy of America’s unsurpassed guitar-artist (written 2011).
I’m bouncing around in the back seat...