Jazz

Will Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets be a rallying cry as the sick and the poor rise up to eat the rich?

While it surely is a sign of something broken in our society that NBA teams like the Brooklyn Nets and celebrities…

On a warm, cloudy afternoon in June, Ornette Coleman and I walk from 9th Avenue to his condo on West 36th Street.…

Jazz Wax, thank you, once again.

“There is a law in what I’m playing, but that law is a law that when you get tired of it, you can change it.” So…

Chicago long ago grudgingly ceded second-banana status to Los Angeles w/r/t population and cultural might, but on…

From Whitney Balliett's book American Musicians: Fifty-Six Portraits in Jazz:

The most improbably exhilarating record I've ever heard was recorded 40 years ago, at a special late show in the…

What can it mean for jazz as a living art when the most hotly debated genre event of 2014 was a satirical post on…

Dig it:

Our man Mark Jacobson has a beautiful story on Sonny Rollins in the latest issue of Men's Journal. Rollins played…

The Great One.

We can not, repeat NOT blame the lockout for this one. Jose Ortiz, known as Piculín and revered as a hero in Puerto…

Karl Malone made it perfectly clear at last night's Utah/Phoenix game that Karl Malone thinks former Jazz coach…

We're looking at every NBA Playoff series through the eyes of both Free Darko. Here's Free Darko's look at the Los…