After spending time in the jazz capital of the world (New York City), it's time to explore some other jazz clubs. But before we leave the East Coast, there's another spot that is worth checking out. We're headed to Massachusetts. The city? Boston. The club? Storyville. It's another exploration in 'Nightclub Jazz', the sub-genre of [...]
For the past few posts, I've been using the sub-genres of jazz to explore and rediscover my record collection. We looked at 'arranger jazz', and then moved to live jazz, specifically 'jazz club jazz'. In the last post, we stepped into the Village Vanguard, a New York City jazz club. Before leaving the state, we're [...]
After exploring the arranged side of jazz, let's move to another major sub-genre of jazz: 'Live jazz'. Live jazz is arguably the best type of jazz, the most free, most spontaneous type of jazz. The musicians feed off the energy of the audience, and the audience is in turn energized by the musicians. Everybody is [...]
It's A Raggy Waltz 