There are a variety of Jazz Summer Camps around the world for young people looking to try out jazz. Here are a few of those summer camps: Stanford Jazz Workshop: The Stanford Jazz Workshop (in Stanford, CA) is a camp that offers two options, jazz camp and jazz residency. The jazz camp is the lower [...]

Here’s some info about an upcoming jazz concert festival and where you can get tickets. The West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival will start tomorrow and run thru Sunday. Some of the headliners will be WAR, The Mingus Big Band, Average White Band, Tower of Power, and Roy Ayers. This festival is funky and [...]

On June 29th “The Blue Note jazz Club will host a benefit for JazzReach featuring two of jazz’s most accomplished and celebrated musicians – Ravi Coltrane and Jack DeJohnette – along side bassist Kenny Davis and harpist Brandee Younger” their website says. Ravi Coltrane has always been a favorite contemporary sax player of mine. I [...]

OK, time for some more bite-sized survival! I hope you all read/enjoyed my review of Percussion Bitter Sweet. (If you don’t have it and are thinking about getting it, please do so through my iTunes links…) Just some new tidbits for you: If you look on the right sidebar underneath the RSS and email subscription [...]

I’ve decided to do a review of a great afro-cuban album, Percussion Bitter Sweet by Max Roach. Personnel: Booker Little, trumpet Julian Prester, trombone Eric Dolphy, alto sax, bass clarinet, flute Clifford Jordan, tenor sax Mal Waldron, piano Art Davis, bass Max Roach, drums Abbey Lincoln, vocals Carlos “Patato” Valdes & Carlos “Totico” Eugenio, percussion [...]

OK, so today I decided to list some of Jazz’s greatest contributions to cilvilization. Here we go! 1. Mingus’ “Cat Toliet Training Program”: http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html. Saving our economy from rising kitty litter and strongly scented candles! 2. Miles Davis’ “The Autobiography” with Quincy Troupe: Who else wants to find a way to fit two curse words [...]

OK, Ladies and Gentlemen, here is part 1 of an ongoing study regarding what the most well-known jazz song is. To make everything more fun, I’m contrasting the votes of the public (which may be just a wee bit influenced because some people are in band, but not jazz band), and that of jazz listeners/musicians. [...]