
Jazz Lives Blog
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Jazz Lives is a blog by Michael Steinman that covers content all about Jazz. Keep up with the latest jazz articles illustrating wonderful notes and songs by legendary artists. Michael Steinman is a writer, videographer, and jazz chronicler. He has been published in many jazz periodicals.
Jazz Lives Blog
18h ago
James Dapogny, our beloved Prof., knew the hallowed jazz repertory was wider and deeper than the expected three dozen “classics,” sometimes worn to shreds. He left us these gems. THE WAY I FEEL TODAY, with its intriguing composer credits: Don ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
4d ago
Here are two points of view expressed by poets of unequal stature: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter . . . (John Keats) Sharing is caring. (Barney the Purple Dinosaur.) Most human beings have some possessiveness ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
5d ago
In the little corner of the jazz world that I call home, happily, some standard or “classic” tunes appear and re-appear. IF I HAD YOU, JUMPIN’ AT THE WOODSIDE, LINGER AWHILE, INDIANA, MY GAL SAL, ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
6d ago
Ruby Braff was very fierce about who he would and wouldn’t play with, so often he created gatherings of unimagined beauty and synergy. I had read about this magical encounter, and am delighted that the music was recorded by French ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
1w ago
The magnificent pianist Joe Sullivan was diagnosed with tuberculosis when he was thirty, and it put him out of action for almost two years. (Treatment with antibiorics did not begin until 1944.) He had worked with the Bob Crosby band ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
1w ago
In 1944, Art Hodes recorded a blues he called CLARK AND RANDOLPH: his soulful evocation of a jazz band in a piano line. Hear the annunciatory first phrase? That’s a trumpet, announcing the mood. The descending line that answers it ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
1w ago
This Bay Area group of brilliant lyrical individualists is led by Mikiya Matsuda on lap steel guitar. For this occasion, the “superband” included the inimitable John S. Reynolds on guitar and vocal; Casey MacGill, ukulele, cornet, and vocal; Dennis Lichtman ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
2w ago
Thanks to double bassist and videographer Matt Weiner, we can now swing out at a Seattle, Washington dance (December 29, 2024, and January 1, 2025). Here’s the wondrous band, The Cloud Drops, with inspired arrangements by Doyle and Zimmerman: Jonathan ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
2w ago
A long weekend of inspired music in comfortable surroundings in a congenial California city. There you have it. Details here. From left, Danny Tobias, trumpet and Eb horn; Josh Collazo, drums; Jacob Zimmerman, clarinet and alto saxophone. Just three of ..read more
Jazz Lives Blog
2w ago
Seventeen minutes of pure Ellington-favored Mainstream joy, performed live at the 1977 Nice Jazz Festival: a new discovery, thanks to our friend Franz Hoffmann. The title? A philosophical statement by Ellington’s short-lived trumpet star, James “Bubber” Miley, who did so ..read more