The city’s music is spiritual, searching and defiantly local, even when it spreads worldwide. Hear tracks from Yusef Lateef, ...
An old saxophone rests in its balding velvet-lined case. The worn keys seems fragile, the screws maybe loose, the metal tarnished. It’s on loan from local jazz musician Tom Hall, in an exhibit case at ...
“We’re building the future,” Tim Johnson, music and executive director of the FM Kicks Band, said. “Not just of this band, but of jazz in Fargo-Moorhead.” Tim and Amy Johnson are local music educators ...
1975 was a landmark year for music, marked by several outstanding album releases. Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (Columbia), Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti (Swan Song), Pink Floyd's Wish You Were ...
DILWORTH, Minn. — Think how many times John DiFiore has put his tenor sax together for a music gig somewhere. He's played with some of America's greatest bands, and for the last 50 years, he's taught ...
At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the 1910s to ’50s. At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by ...
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50 Essential Jazz Albums

After sharing my list of 50 essential jazz albums, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the process. In this follow-up video, I talk about how I made the selections, which albums were tough to ...