If you haven’t been to a primetime show at the Blue Note in a while, let me remind you what it’s like: First of all, you’re packed in so tightly with the other jazz fans that you can barely move your ...

One of the most famous lines in all of music criticism was given to us by Benny Green, who, in a 1959 review of the Modern Jazz Quartet and their amazing drummer, Connie Kay, said, “It suddenly ...

Ronald Levin Carter (born Ferndale, Michigan, on May 4, 1937) needs no introduction. Let's just say that he is the bassist's bassist. On Ron's hands, the bass and the man become the same entity, the ...

Miles Davis stopped by Chicago last week, and not a moment too soon. “I don’t want to be called a ‘legend.’ … A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do,” a disembodied Davis ...

Ron Carter, the world’s most recorded jazz bassist, is now part of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Carter was inducted into the hall of fame during an Aug. 3 ceremony at the historic Carver Theatre in ...

Last night, Tuesday, Dec. 12, Bobby Weir arrived at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y., for night one of five at the storied location. Throughout the concert, the Grateful Dead guitarist ...

The odds are that most readers are not intimately familiar with jazz accordion. Undoubtedly, that is because there are not very many of them; someone might list Art Van Damme, Tommy Gumina, Angelo di ...

The first time that Ron Carter came out to San Francisco in 1961 he was so green that he sought advice from a more experienced colleague about how to survive on the road. Related Articles Two ...