In 2004, photog Gene Martin asked the guitarist/inventor who’d just received the Jazz Journalists Association’s “A Team” award for activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz, to pose for a portrait. . .
Manhattan jazz residencies (my new City Arts column)
- The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard on Monday night since 1967Â
- Â The Mingus Big Band, Orchestra and Dynasty ensemble in regular rotation on Mondays at the Jazz Standard
- Guitarist Les Paul, at age 94 a genuine hipster, the Ben Franklin of American popular music, Monday nights at Iridium forever.
These are a few of our favorite things. Read about it in my new monthly column in City Arts NYC: New York’s Review of Culture, published by the folks who also bring you New York Press.