Louis Armstrong

Saxophonist Grant Stewart moved from Toronto to New York after high school, and quickly established himself as a musician's musician. Stewart has played and studied with everyone from Donald Byrd and Pat LaBarbera to Brad Mehldau and Al Grey...

Los Angeles - WOW! I can't believe that another year has gone by and that I was able to celebrate the 21st Annual UCLA JazzReggae Fest with thousands of music lovers from all over Southern California, on May 27 and 28, 2007...

Levees Made of Lies: Rage, Grief, and the Chimera of the American Dream by Phil Rockstroh This is the choice our times have given us: continued complicity in sowing the toxic winds of corporatism -- or the passion-agitated air created by the ceaseless ne...

Many young people say that duplicating CDs or DVDs they own is legal. The industries disagree...

Lovesick Blogathan, let me leave you with this picture, taken in the old Red Light District of New Orleans, not far from where Louis Armstrong and his ilk played jazz for horny women...

Kayla has asked me what this nostalgia thing was going to be about and I told her "oh, just memories and stuff..." It is interesting to sit at a wedding and remember holding the groom in your arms when he was a newborn baby...

the most significant form of musical expression of African-American culture and arguably the most outstanding contribution the United States has made to the art of music. Origins of Jazz Jazz developed in the latter part of the 19th cent...

These alternatives are not new to the market. But it seems that they may have fallen through the cracks, so to speak, because of the promotion of ethanol, biodiesel and the fuel cell...

So I can enjoy a lot of what Dean off-handedly tossed off on his Fifties Capitol label recordings, the Italian pop songs, the bleached Dixieland, even "That's Amore." Dino couldn't sing anything straight unless it was already something he needn't empty o...