No doubt there is a lot of creative abstract intellectual jazz coming out these days, which is all fine and good, but sometimes you may b...

By jazz journalist, Dee Dee McNeil John Daversa, trumpet/EVI; Bob Mintzer, tenor saxophone/bass clarinet/EWI; Zane Carney, guitar; Joe Ba...

He’s only one of the greatest drummers on the planet: Steve Gadd. Greatness, for the purposes of this article, is defined by a combinatio...

When this year's Grammy nominations were announced in early December, I scanned the jazz and related nominations, looking for friends and...

If you were to place every album drummer Steve Gadd appeared on end-to-end you would traverse at least one football field before you got ...

Near the end of the title track of the new album by the Steve Gadd Band, Gadd takes a knock-your-socks-off drum solo that brings the hous...

A Conversation with Tierney Sutton Mike Ragogna: Tierney, let’s start with a little bit of your history. You collaborated with Clint Eastw...

There have been a lot of tributes to the Fab Four in jazz circles lately, but I don’t think any have swung harder than this one by John D...

Believe it or not, there are many people who don’t get the Beatles — at all. Musicians are another matter; almost every one cites the Fab...

Does the world need another collection of Beatles covers? The same argument could be had about any of the dozens of standards that regula...

It's a rarity to find a modern big band dedicated to playing original music in Los Angeles; home to some of the world's most talented mus...

Since it often seems that musicians by the boatload are busily covering the Beatles Songbook—just Google jazz covers of the Beatles—it mi...

JOHN DAVERSA/Kaleidoscope Eyes-Music of the Beatles: An educator that uses the freedom the security of his day job gives to give back to ...

Here are a pair of impressive piano trios, displaying the art of small group joy.One trio pairs down to one as well. Pianist Jakub Rojek ...

Patrick Williams, Home Suite Home (BFM Jazz). You’ve been hearing the music of Patrick Williams your entire life and almost certainly nev...