Art Farmer

Jazz fans are such a discriminating batch that the prospect of buying them Christmas gifts must give non-jazz fans the blues. Read More

CAM Jazz announced that iTunes, the world's largest digital music service, will be the retailer of 56 selected albums from the seminal Black Saint and Soul Note catalogs. iTunes will create a special sale room to feature the music from December 1 through January 5, 2010. Read More

The concerts, showcasing new compositions as well as time-honored classics, feature an ever-rotating ensemble with Mr. Ciacca serving as the core artist. Read More

Duke Ellington at the Olympia Theater in Paris, 1958. Read More

In the early '80s, when I was a socially awkward teenage jazz geek, it wasn't easy to find filmed footage of departed musicians. Read More

I revere the memory of the Jazz Baroness (1913-1988), the race blind heiress who championed the rights of sometimes powerless jazz musicians against the powerful establishment, who recognized genius when she heard it, and whose loyalty was by all accounts unstinting... Read More

Last week I posted about star-crossed trumpeter Don Sleet [pictured] and his sole leadership album All Members. Read More

Get your holidays off to a great start with the Sherman Chamber Ensemble's Thanksgiving weekend family concerts, featuring a performance Saturday at 4 p.m. at Sherman Congregational Church, and a second concert Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Andrew's Church in Kent. The Sherman Chamber Ensemble's annual "Jazzing up the Classics" concerts will feature highlights from Claude Bolling's jazz suites for flute (featuring Susan Rotholz) and cello (with Eliot Bailen). Read More