Charlie Parker Centennial (includes two original essays + interviews with Charles McPherson, Steve Coleman, Tom Harrell, Mark Turner, John Scofield, Bertha Hope, and a guest post by Mark Stryker)
Two Richie Powell Intros, Land and Brown on “Joy Spring”
Shades of Jazz (Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman)
Black Music Teachers in the Age of Segregation
The Breakthrough of Geri Allen
Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, and Stanley Dance
Red’s Bells (Red Garland)
Selections From the Gutter (Art Hodes)
Carla, Carla, Carla, Carla, Carla (Carla Bley)
Evolution (Bobby Hutcherson)
Reverential Gesture (Duke Ellington) (pairs with Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis)
The Drum Thing, or, A Brief History of Whiplash, or, “I’m Generalizing Here” (see also the companion post, “Traps, the Drum Wonder” by Mark Stryker
The Paradox of Continuity (Paul Motian)
Four Scenes from Dave Frishberg’s My Dear Departed Past
Hampton Hawes and the Low Blues
For Charlie Haden: Liberation Chorus (41 other musicians offer memorial respects), Silence (anthology of DTM writing about Charlie)
Cedar’s Blues (For Cedar Walton)
The Folk Element Is Intact (Four Mulgrew Miller Solos)
A Little Left Hand from Ben Riley
Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk (including guest post by Eric Lewis)
Magic Numbers 1: Hank Jones with Ron Carter and Tony Williams
Magic Numbers 2: Ron and Tony with other trios
The “J” Word (Wynton Marsalis and related topics)
Drums and Cymbals by Donald Bailey
Oscar Peterson and Miles Davis
Mickey Fletcher, Albert Murray, Butch Warren, Frank Wess, Dwayne Burno (obits from 2014)
DO THE M@TH 