My Midlife Jazz Crisis – Stage 1: The Acknowledgement
Well, it has happened. I was recently ranting to a good friend about how today’s jazz scene is just not the same as it was when I was young and first launched Jazz Online. After my long and emotional diatribe on the sorry state of the music and industry, my friend bluntly retorted, “I hate…
NYU Jazz Interview Series: George Garzone
I’ve known George since 1984 when I was one of his students standing on an endless line of saxophonists descending on his teaching studio. At that time, I would have never have considered that over twenty years later, George would be teaching for me as a member of my NYU Jazz faculty.
Q&A: Chris Conner
When I was in high school, I worked nearly every weekend for my neighbor Dan doing a variety of household jobs like painting and landscaping. Although I made a few bucks, the bigger payout was hanging out with Dan every Saturday. We were certainly an odd couple – me at 15 and he in his…
Miles Davis Podcast: Easy Mo Bee
Miles Davis’ Doo-Bop came out in June 1992 and it was the first project marketed on the original Jazz Online bulletin board system. (I guess I’m dating myself.) Warner Bros. Jazz was our first official client and it was an honor to work the final studio recording by Miles Davis. Looking back to that time,…