Johnny Mandel: From Jazz Roots to Hollywood Fame
“If Johnny Mandel had just composed ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’”, tweeted Tony Bennett on June 30, “it would have
“If Johnny Mandel had just composed ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’”, tweeted Tony Bennett on June 30, “it would have
To say that Freddy Cole’s career blossomed late in life would be an understatement. Spending much of his musical life
Big Band in the Sky,Jazz Giant: Charles McPherson, Sarasota Honors Rachel Domber, Other Views, The Bright Future of Jazz, Talking Jazz: Ingrid Jensen, Marty Grosz’s ‘Life in Jazz’
Continued from the July/August 2020 issue of Jersey Jazz Magazine
Bassist Frank “Jerry” Bruno, who died June 22, 2020, at the age of 100, performed his last gig on February 29,
By Scott Robinson
I doubt that I’m the last musician (and maybe not the first) who’ll want to create a musical piece of eight minutes and 46 seconds duration, the exact length of time it took for a man’s life to ebb away on that horrifying video we have all seen in the news.
Stars of Jazz was a weekly television show originally seen in Los Angeles, but it eventually had a 29-show national run before reverting to being a local show for its final few episodes.
When the Miles Davis Septet was beginning to record the now-classic album, Kind of Blue (Columbia: 1959), Davis reportedly said
Shortly after Holli Ross recorded her first solo album, You’ll See, on the Mile High Records label in 2011, JazzTimes‘
Cole was born on February 29, 1948, in Trenton, NJ. Since his father owned two jazz clubs in Trenton, he
