The wonderful reed player Frank Roberscheuten, pianist Rossano Sportiello, and drummer Martin Breinschmid mad a CD — they call their trio THREE WISE MEN.��� And they are!��� Here’s what I had to say in Cadence (January-March 2008) about the disc: Often, the most traditional Jazz trio format - a...

I have just learned that the brilliantly individualistic musician Jim Goodwin has died.��� He had been ill for some time and had concentrated on the piano rather than his first love, the cornet.��� On that instrument, he had much of the same surprising intensity and off-center majesty of Red Allen: you didn’t know where his [...]

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Here’s two minutes of Louis Armstrong in shining form, in the 1938 film “Going Places.”��� I will brush aside the obvious objections, that Louis, dressed as a groom, sings and plays to a horse; his music is interrupted and nearly obscured by foolish dialogue and shots of that same horse whinnying;...

When I first discovered Stride piano, now about forty years ago, Willie “The Lion” Smith was a paradox - at once ubiquitous and inaccessible.��� I bought a copy of his two-disc “Memoirs” in a now vanished Greenwich Village record store, and his autobiography was on the shelves of my local...

As the line goes in Shakespeare in Love: "It'll be all right." "How?" "I don't know, it's a mystery." After a day of fully expecting that I would a) lose my voice completely, b) faint, c) both, the concert went wonderfully and a voice came along from somewhere, though I'm not sure it...

Some Internet providers in the US are considering a tiered pricing system — charging more to customers who use a lot of bandwidth. There has been a hue and cry from the public regarding this proposal. By now, everyone is...