Any friendship needs care. Like a plant, friendship dies when neglected. My readers love this music. We have felt its warm embrace. But many are quietly neglecting the art that has been a true friend. I refer specifically to jazz in performance, face to face. If your finances are limited or your health is fragile;…

Jazz Lives

12.06.2025

HAVE YOUR FIRE EXTINGUISHER HANDY: MARTY GROSZ, JON-ERIK KELLSO, DAN BARRETT, BOB HAVENS, BOBBY GORDON, JOHN SHERIDAN, BOB HAGGART, WAYNE JONES (Conneaut Lake Jazz Festival, August 26, 1994) | JAZZ LIVES

Go ahead and get it. I'll wait. You'll need it. Exhibit A: Exhibit B: and the thing in itself: a performance of DIPPER MOUTH BLUES from Joe Boughton's fabled Conneaut Lake Jazz Festival, with Marty Grosz, guitar, leader; Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; Dan Barrett, cornet; Bob Havens, trombone; Bobby Gordon, clarinet; John Sheridan, piano; Bob Haggart,…

Jazz Lives

13.06.2025

CHRIS HOPKINS MEETS THE YOUNG LIONS (Volume One and Two) | JAZZ LIVES

I have a real admiration for Chris Hopkins, brilliantly at ease on piano or alto saxophone. I think I first encountered him on an Arbors Records release from 2000, DAYBREAK. Here's the title, poignant and pensive: https://youtu.be/R9jr01zQCO8?si=SodQpWO2Ap6XzH_9 I had the great good fortune to encounter him in person after that: once at Joe Boughton's Jazz…

Jazz Lives

14.06.2025

THE PAST, RESTORED TO US: JON-ERIK KELLSO, JAMES DAPOGNY, SCOTT ROBINSON, MARTY GROSZ, VINCE GIORDANO, EDDIE METZ; DAN BLOCK; BOB HAVENS, BOBBY GORDON (Jazz at Chautauqua, Sunday brunch, September 19, 2004). | JAZZ LIVES

In decades of listening to recorded performances and observing live ones, I have had many memorable experiences, ranging from an eight-bar Bobby Hackett solo at Carnegie Hall fifty years ago to something I sat close to this June. But Jazz at Chautauqua remains my Arabian Nights, a magical outpouring of music amidst heroes and heroines,…

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IS JAZZ YOUR FRIEND? | JAZZ LIVES

HAVE YOUR FIRE EXTINGUISHER HANDY: MARTY GROSZ, JON-ERIK KELLSO, DAN BARRETT, BOB HAVENS, BOBBY GORDON, JOHN SHERIDAN, BOB HAGGART, WAYNE JONES (Conneaut Lake Jazz Festival, August 26, 1994) | JAZZ LIVES

CHRIS HOPKINS MEETS THE YOUNG LIONS (Volume One and Two) | JAZZ LIVES

THE PAST, RESTORED TO US: JON-ERIK KELLSO, JAMES DAPOGNY, SCOTT ROBINSON, MARTY GROSZ, VINCE GIORDANO, EDDIE METZ; DAN BLOCK; BOB HAVENS, BOBBY GORDON (Jazz at Chautauqua, Sunday brunch, September 19, 2004). | JAZZ LIVES

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