In the years since Mark Lettieri first sat down with All About Jazz, much has changed--and, in a sense, much has not. At the time of that 2020 interview, Lettieri had a budding solo career, but was still primarily known as being part of Snarky Puppy's (SP) formidable six-string triumvirate...
Note: Long before this Jazz Detective, there was another. His name was Vic... "Cool" Vic, to be exact. Back in 1998—1999, Vic was a music dick—chasing down lost artifacts, missing recordings, and cold cases from the shadowy alleys of jazz history. Then he disappeared...
It began not with a note, but with a shimmer. Elvin Jones washed a mallet across a suspended gong, a metallic exhale that seemed to expand until it touched the gilded balconies of Carnegie Hall. The silence that followed was heavy, not empty—the kind of silence that waits for a prophecy.
Though the history of jazz in Ukraine dates back to the second decade of the 20th Century, jazz media in Ukraine
was slower to develop. While this article's primary focus is on today's jazz journalists, independent proselytizers
and advocates, it would be...
Broadway bombed. Hollywood boomed. Movies learned to talk.
The stock market crashed in 1929 and burst the popularity bubble of Broadway. Going to see a play or a musical was common practice in the Roaring Twenties. There were hundreds of them playing on the Great White Way and millions...
A smooth jazz version of the classic Bill Wither's “Just the Two of Us." The feel and tempo of this song really inspired me and capturing the feel of a marimba live on a guitar was a highlight.
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