The Case For Original Jazz Imagine a world without Thelonious Monk’s music. Imagine a world with none of Wayne Shorter’s music. Imagi...

New Year’s Resolutions 2016: 1. Read and Memorize all the works of Shakespeare. Be able to quote key verses at will, especially during fa...

When it comes to self-promotion, I'm probably the worst of all time. When I booked my Senior Recital at Peabody Conservatory, I didn...

Chamber Music America is a wonderful organization which facilitates a boatload of grant money for independent jazz artists. The organiza...

I just returned to Portland from my third consecutive experience at the Reno Jazz Festival. It's a pretty amazing event; 8,000 studen...

Saxophonist Joe Manis turned me on to this video. Vocalist Joyce Kwon has done more than simply learn John Coltrane's solo on ...

Happy New Year,  everyone! I'm sure many of you have New Year's resolutions. It's great to have goals and get motivated and ...

Since I've been on the subject of movies lately, one great film I saw recently was "Birdman," an incredible vehicle for Mic...

"Man those cats be playing some THEORY!" I'm finding that one of the huge challenges for teaching jazz at the higher lev...

Couldn't find any photos of Richard, but this is his family business     where we worked for years Richard Dorsey, a wonderful ten...

Musicians have been telling me about jazzistheworst for a while. I've read it a few times, but the one I read today made we want t...

The older I get, the less I care about what others think of me. I'm not saying I don't care at all; I'm saying that it conc...

GC: Son, let's work on the alphabet. Let's take a break from TV and work on our letters, OK? LC: Daddy, NO! I DON'T WANT T...