Barbecue my what? The unpredictable Jimmy Smith: Video, Photos
In 1995, while I was deep in the digital jazz revolution, creating the pioneering Jazz Central Station website,…
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Origins and echoes of Vernel Fournier’s classic beat with Idris Muhammad, Ahmad Jamal and others: Videos, Photos
This essay is a sort of prologue to the series of articles I’m preparing about the great mid-century…
CD review: Joey DeFrancesco featuring Jack Jones – ArtWork – 2023: Video, CD cover
Jack Jones’ latest album, ARTWORK, featuring Joey DeFrancesco. Long regarded as the singer’s-singer, the two-time Grammy award winner…
The organist Reuben Wilson, who helped usher in soul jazz, has died at 88: Video, Photos
Few are the folks who could cast a literal shadow over the iconic Hammond B-3 organ, nicknamed “the…
Reminiscing and in memory of Joey DeFrancesco and one of our interview: Video, Photos
Jazz interview with jazz organist and trumpeter Joey DeFrancesco. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.Space: – Which…
Joey DeFrancesco died at the age of 51: Video, Photos
Jazz Musician Joey DeFrancesco died at the age of 51. A jazz musician named Joey DeFrancesco died unexpectedly…