Roy Haynes

Roy Haynes was standing outside his Long Island home recently, looking at his white '74 Bricklin, the short-lived Canadian-built car that was the first to feature push-button gull-wing doors. Read More

This weekend is opening weekend of the 14th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival, with long-anticipated performances by the Calvin Keys Organ Quartet on Friday, the sold-out Dixieland at the Bakery show on Saturday, and two performances plus receptions by the classic Freddy Cole Quartet at Barndiva on Sunday. Read More

As noted in Neil Tesser 's new liner notes, Misterioso was recorded live near the end of the Thelonious Monk Quartet's six month residency at New York's Five Spot Café in 1958. Read More

This weekend is opening weekend of the 14th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival, with long-anticipated performances by the Calvin Keys Organ Quartet on Friday, the sold-out Dixieland at the Bakery show on Saturday, and two performances plus receptions by the classic Freddy Cole Quartet at Barndiva on Sunday. Read More

A look at the dozen essential Northern California music festivals worth giving up your weekends for this summer. Read More

Hard to believe, but only nine days are left until the start of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival on Friday, June 1. Read More

Perhaps the best quote ever given on the "recipe" for jazz came from legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon. Read More

The Concord Music Group has been reissuing classic jazz albums via their Original Jazz Classics Remasters Series for several years. Read More

It's only four weeks before the real jazz begins. . .Read More

Misterioso , Thelonious Monk 's 1958 album recorded live at the Five Spot Café in Greenwich Village, gets its title from his 1948 composition of the same name. Read More