Ben Webster

God knows I want the record shops to survive. Read More

This winter, the Westport Arts Center (WAC) will celebrate the great American art form of jazz with a lively mix of visual arts, music, and film. Read More

Darnielle, who at one time hoped his "day job" would be as a poet, now uses his literary talents in service of song, and he's clearly got a knack for conjuring a time and place not only literally (mid-'70s Watergate; think Ang Lee's The Ice Storm ) but figuratively as well (inside the mind of a scared kid hiding from his parents' disintegrating marriage). Read More

Recorded jazz is still under a century old, but in a little over nine decades an enormous quantity of music has amassed. Read More

Book blurbs often seem the equivalent of movie blurbs. Read More

It's not often that you get to talk to someone 91 years old, not to mention one who has played, written or arranged for Duke Ellington and hundreds of other jazz luminaries. Read More

The GW Jackson Multicultural Society, Inc. is proud to present their first fundraising event, a Jazz concert to benefit the restoration of the GW Jackson home. Read More

The location wasn't today's glitzy Frith Street supper club, with its soft-lit ambience, plush furnishings and coolly expert young bar staff, but a dingy basement in Soho's Chinatown, where the stage could barely accommodate a quartet, the furnishings were cast-offs, and the staple beverage was tea. Read More

We welcome two or three new Athens Ear Buds contributors, and I for one am glad to have them. Read More

Washington, D.C.--The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz today announced its 22nd annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and all-star Gala Concert will take place at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 11. Read More