That's Dan Barrett, trombone; Marc Caparone, cornet; Jeff Hamilton, piano; Mikiya Matsuda, double bass. Their title is not the result of collective identity theft; it just says something about their sense of humor. Sometimes the music I love is an hour away by Uber or car. Often, it requires an airplane trip and a long…

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01.04.2025

PLEASURE UNALTERED BY TIME: JOHNNY VARRO, BUCKY PIZZARELLI, RICHARD SIMON, EDDIE METZ (San Diego Jazz Party, February 22, 2014) | JAZZ LIVES

Milk spoils, cheese turns to mold, paper crumbles, photographs fade. But certain things are stronger than time. One of them is a good rhythm section rocking through a song that once was familiar but now has a certain novelty. So I present to you a compact delightful interlude from almost a dozen years ago. It…

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02.04.2025

DREAMS COME TRUE! (Part Two): THE DANNY TOBIAS SEPTET (DANNY TOBIAS, DAN BLOCK, SCOTT ROBINSON, STEVE ASH, FELIX LEMERLE, JEN HODGE, ALEX RADERMAN at Winnie’s Jazz Bar, March 14, 2025) | JAZZ LIVES

My title is no overstatement. Here's the first set, for ecstatic proof. The people (photograph RSG Studios): The place: That's one view of Winnie's Jazz Bar, 63 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018 (646) 846-9063. Cozy, friendly, with very nice food and drink. But on March 14, delightfully imaginative and swinging music transformed this…

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03.04.2025

HOWARD DIETZ and ARTHUR SCHWARTZ SAY “DRESS FOR SUCCESS”: JOHN S. REYNOLDS, DAWN LAMBETH, DANNY TOBIAS, JACOB ZIMMERMAN, CHRIS DAWSON, MIKIYA MATSUDA, JOSH COLLAZO (Jazz Bash by the Bay, Monterey, California: March 7-8, 2025) | JAZZ LIVES

John S. Reynolds explains: one must be properly dressed to succeed at life, in love, in general. Dawn Lambeth offers her own version of this encouraging sartorial sermon: both songs by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, lyrics and music. GOT A BRAN' NEW SUIT (1935) was recorded memorably by two well-dressed men, Fats Waller and…

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“THE UNNAMABLE QUARTET”: DAN BARRETT, MARC CAPARONE, JEFF HAMILTON, MIKIYA MATSUDA (Bird and Beckett Books and Records, San Francisco, March 29, 2025) | JAZZ LIVES

PLEASURE UNALTERED BY TIME: JOHNNY VARRO, BUCKY PIZZARELLI, RICHARD SIMON, EDDIE METZ (San Diego Jazz Party, February 22, 2014) | JAZZ LIVES

DREAMS COME TRUE! (Part Two): THE DANNY TOBIAS SEPTET (DANNY TOBIAS, DAN BLOCK, SCOTT ROBINSON, STEVE ASH, FELIX LEMERLE, JEN HODGE, ALEX RADERMAN at Winnie’s Jazz Bar, March 14, 2025) | JAZZ LIVES

HOWARD DIETZ and ARTHUR SCHWARTZ SAY “DRESS FOR SUCCESS”: JOHN S. REYNOLDS, DAWN LAMBETH, DANNY TOBIAS, JACOB ZIMMERMAN, CHRIS DAWSON, MIKIYA MATSUDA, JOSH COLLAZO (Jazz Bash by the Bay, Monterey, California: March 7-8, 2025) | JAZZ LIVES

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