A recent edition of DownBeat magazine detailed in part a new project to release Newport Jazz Festival performances online. The project is being undertaken by a company called Wolfgang’s Vault, and they’ve had the good sense to engage longtime jazz scribe Bill Milkowski as their intrepid "crate digger", trolling through the rich archives of recorded [...]
Writer Eugene Holley — Wilmington’s own — is one who’s always first-rate commentary I take personal pride in. I’ve watched his development closely, ever since we worked together in developing the National Jazz Service Organization during the first stages of my directorship. Eugene’s latest liner notes enhance NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal’s superb latest record "A [...]
The demise of four-wall record stores has been painful to many of certain generations, myself included. Leafing through the stacks — or crate digging as it’s popularly referred to these days — is the way many of us educated ourselves about various forms of music. There are indeed survivors of this demise, stalwart record dealers [...]
DC-based Tom Porter is a man with a vast range of experiences — from community activist to college professor to community radio station executive. Some of his more recent crate digging has involved unearthing a treasure chest of unreleased recordings captured at the many sessions at Amiri Baraka’s Spirit House performance space for Porter’s own Son Boy [...]
Miles Willis is a dedicated crate digger often in search of rare recordings. Formerly the lone jazz programmer at KPFT-FM, Pacifica Radio in Houston, TX, since relocating to the DC area Miles — who is a biologist 9-5 — can be heard on WPFW, Pacifica Radio in the Nation’s Capital (listen live at www.wpfw.org). Miles [...]