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 attitude pendulum towards creative artists most often swings most heavily — as it should — to the enormity of their gifts with the passage of time for those whose careers were marked by questionable behavior. Our collective memory tends to soften towards those guilty of even the most egregious behavioral lapses after they’ve passed on to ancestry, [...]