The Newport Jazz Festival has survived seven decades primarily due to how forward-looking it has been. The event has generally…
As the legendary Newport Jazz Festival turns seventy years old, it is all too easy to look back at the…
We continue our conversation with NEA Jazz Master Stanley Clarke. You can read part one here. PostGenre: You were one…
After first being mass-produced by Fender in the 1950s, the electric bass, for many years, found a home in only…
According to a 2015 Nielsen report, “jazz” makes up a paltry 1.3% of total music consumption in the United States.…
In his speech to the Royal Academy on April 30, 1953, Winston Churchill remarked, "Without tradition, art is a flock…
The Newport Jazz Festival’s history of saxophonists is vast, including heroes like John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Ornette Coleman. What…
Biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson once noted, "Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook…
There are few people funkier than Fred Wesley. As James Brown increasingly turned from Soul Brother Number One into the…
It is all too easy for a misguided person to view the Newport Festivals as events that attempt to be…
