Music Archives - Page 29 of 62

About 10 years ago, while window shopping in Sag Harbor (the least offensive of the Hamptons), I hear this fabulous music wafting out the...

We have long criticized the absurd Retail pricing of CDs. A few years ago, we asked the question Are CD Prices Getting More Dynamic? It...

Another guest musical director for FNJ this week: Eddie Elfenbein of Crossing Wall Street on Artie Shaw. Take it away, Eddie: > Artie...

Yet another talented UK vocalist taking her cues from the past, but with a modern twist: Amy Winehouse. Winehouse’s 2nd album, Back...

FNJ has a guest DJ tonite: BondDaddy is in the house! Dexter Gordon is one of the greatest tenor sax players. He had a strong tone and...

Outstanding Village Voice podcast/column on "Jazz for People Who Think They Hate Jazz," by LD Beghtol for our FNJ series. It is...

I haven’t heard this new CD/DVD yet, but the reviews are great, and the live version below is outstanding: Live at Massey Hall....

A variation on our usual Friday Evening Jazz series: What happens when one of the worlds top violinists plays in a subway station as an...

Dick Dale tells the record label to go f#@% themselves:

I previously mentioned Johnny Hartman in passing (in the Joe Williams post some time back) — but Hartman deserves his own FNJ post:...