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 be asking yourself, ‘w...

By jazz journalist, Dee Dee McNeil John Daversa, trumpet/EVI; Bob Mintzer, tenor saxophone/bass clarinet/EWI; Zane Carney, guitar; Joe Bagg, piano/Hammond B3...

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

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

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 to the end of the 19...

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 house down. The album, s...

A Conversation with Tierney Sutton Mike Ragogna: Tierney, let’s start with a little bit of your history. You collaborated with Clint Eastwood on Sully, you’v...

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 Daversa’s Band. He’s ...

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 Four as a major inf...

Does the world need another collection of Beatles covers? The same argument could be had about any of the dozens of standards that regularly, sometimes ad na...

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 musicians and entertain...

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

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 the minds he's shapi...

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 teams up with Domini...

Patrick Williams, Home Suite Home (BFM Jazz). You’ve been hearing the music of Patrick Williams your entire life and almost certainly never known it. He is a...