Big Road Blues has an excellent essay accompanying their last show dedicated to Earl Hooker called Play Your Guitar, Mr. Hooker: "Among his peers, Earl Hooker is widely considered the greatest guitarist of his generation. His wild performances attracted a loyal following wherever he went as he enter...

DEWEY’S CIRCLE David Murray Ming Black Saint : 1980 BUY DM, tenor sax, bass clarinet; Olu Dara, trumpet; Lawrence “Butch” Morris, cornet; George Lewis, trombone; Henry Threadgill, alto sax; Anthony Davis, piano; Wilber Morris, bass; Steve McCall, drums. MOON WALTZ John Carter Dance...

Image via Wikipedia Zorn will be spending some time at Yoshi’s in San Francisco this March. Sometimes a club is more than a club; it becomes an incubator. From March 11 through 15, Yoshi’s in San Francisco is bringing in saxophonist-composer John Zorn, still a radical at age 55, a man wh...

The influential jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard has died in Los Angeles aged 70 his spokesman said....

Coming up at New York’s RUCMA: Start: 12/29/2008 - 9:00pm End: 12/29/2008 - 10:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-4 Richardson / Carter / Jordan / Moss / Gruner Monday, December 29 @ 9 PM Yippie Café: 9 Bleecker Street, near Bowery General Admission: $10 Demian Richardson (trumpet) Daniel Carter (reeds) ...

A confusing time since I got back – family stuff – an impending baby (my daughter's) - technical problems – plus two great gigs back to back (Jack Hudson and Don Partridge) and a weekend with old friends which necessitated a surfeit of raking... So to start again, before the reviews – here's...

A great part of the fun involved in this type of blog is in attempting to write about disparate kinds of music, attempting to capture something of the essence of the track... An impossible task, perhaps – but, like I said, fun... From the classic album 'The Panther and the Lash,' a long track: 'Hu...

This is a reprint of a blog entry from 2002: When in doubt of where to go musically, when questioning one's ability to hear harmonic structures, to find the “in� groove or chord, or if just in need of a general aural cleansing, there is nothing that will substitute for Ornette Coleman. I first e...

A quick three - time has run away with me this week, embroiled in editing down a lot of our music and plotting for the launch of our cd/download label... coming soon, fingers crossed... 'Things ain't what they used to be.' They certainly weren't after Cecil Taylor had exploded onto the scene... desp...