Plastic Sax

While at the celebration of Charlie Parker’s 95th birthday in Lincoln Cemetery yesterday, I forgot to ask Bird’s daughter Kim if she had a...

Montez Coleman will lead a band at the Blue Room on Friday, August 28.  He supports trumpeter Roy Hargrove in the embedded video.  The dru...

*Jazz scholar Scott DeVeaux was a guest on KCUR’s “Central Standard.” *Joe Klopus runs down this week’s Charlie Parker Cel...

I didn’t expect anything to come of the provocative question I scribbled on a notecard at the first event of this year’s Ch...

Although his site insists that he's "one of the most sought after jazz trumpeters in the country today," I was unfamiliar with...

* Joe Klopus and Larry Kopitnik assess this year’s Charlie Parker Celebration. *John Scott of the Green Lady Lounge and B...

Pat Metheny’s noisy Zero Tolerance For Silence is one of the most challenging albums of the 1990s.  I may not be the only...