Take The "A" Train

Last week, I began a ten-week series exploring jazz that reflects a part of Iran, both as an actual place on the map and as a pure crea...

photo by Reza Hakiminejad Imagine this: A tenor saxophone and bass mimic in sound the pace of rush hour walkers. A trumpet, soundi...

C ontinuing with our Duke Ellington's 114th birthday celebration, here you can watch probably the most ambitious TV programme ever m...

1 "New Orleans jazz may be considered 'mouldy fig' by the diggers of bop, but when it comes to setting a joint jumping, D...

click on the image to enlarge Looks like a dream, but it really happened in the summer of 1961 in Central Park, New York. For this phot...

L es Blank , a fascinating individual and director of some remarkably personal documentaries passed away yesterday. I hardly have anyt...

Duke Ellington in Paris ‎" America is my country and Paris is my hometown. " -- Gertrude Stein J azz found its secon...

T he readers of this blog have probably noticed that lately I've been focusing on jazz in Hollywood films. There is no particular re...

I n 1941 one of the most commercially successful and artistically enduring comedies of all time was released: Ball of Fire . The story ...

Byrd in Paris with Walter Davis (p), Bobby Jaspar (ts) and Doug Watkins (b). Trumpet player, composer, band leader and jazz educator D...