Jazz & Blues Lounge

For all of you who are not in Chicago, I apologize.  I love this town.  You really should visit.  If you happen to love jazz, then you really need to visit.  There is an entire vacation you can have all related to jazz if you come up here, I am quite sure.  You just have to stop at the Velvet Lounge, for example.
The cool thing is that we have jazz festivals even when it gets cold and the sky starts spitting snow.  That is the case this coming Thanksgiving weekend and I have the great jazz radio station WDCB to …read more

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If there is a modern family that could arguably be considered a kind of “Royal Family” of jazz, it would have to be the family known as Marsalis.  I know, there are those who are likey to argue, this, but there is no denying the fact that someone with the last name of Marsalis has been recording and playing jazz music for a very long time.  Since this is my blog, I will even go out on a limb and say they are some of the best modern jazz musicians around.
I am a fan of the horn players, particularly trumpet …read more

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