Jazz

JAZZ col­lects those few ar­ti­cles I write when I ven­ture into jazz. While I lis­tened to some jazz as a teenager, I dug rock & music and didn’t start re­ally paying at­ten­tion to it until In A Silent Way (1969) and Bitches Brew (1970).

Most of the ar­ti­cles here will be aimed at record col­lec­tors, not at jazz afi­cionados. Discogra­phies and price guides may be in­cluded in these ar­ti­cles.

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the transfiguration of young man mose allison

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AllisonMose header

DURING THE BRITISH INVASION of 1964-1966, ‘se­rious’ in­for­ma­tion on the British groups—in fact, on rock & roll artists in general—was very hard to come by for we Amer­ican fans. Fans had to turn to the teeny­bopper fan mags of the era for any trans­fig­u­ra­tion of their tastes from the or­di­nary to the ex­tra­or­di­nary. READ MORE

the glorious life and inglorious death of jaco pastorius

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JacoPastorious hader

TO MANY MUSICIANS AND FANS, John Francis An­thony Pas­to­rius III—or Jaco to everyone who knew him—was ar­guably the most in­ven­tive and most in­flu­en­tial elec­tric jazz bass-player of the past forty years. His flair in both playing his in­stru­ment and in on­stage per­for­mance earned him the nick­name the ‘Jimi Hen­drix of the bass.’ He READ MORE