J.B. Spins

If you are a celebrity, never let a good near-death experience go to waste. Much like Jamie Foxx did in his Netflix special, Paul David Hews...

Unfortunately, David Gilmour announced his retirement from public performance after the “Luck and Strange” tour. Of course there was no-way,...

Musician Nils Frahm's photographer father Klaus Frahm produced covers for a handful of ECM jazz records, including one of their biggest ...

It was eleven years after the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival immortalized in Bert Stern’s Jazz on a Summer’s Day and ten years after the es...

ABC just didn’t get it. When they saw the footage of Jimi Hendrix torching his guitar at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, they reverted th...

Where can hipsterdom and traditional Americana come together in common purpose? Evidently, along our nation’s railways. Neither wants to ...

People do not realize the swath of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Sandy was so wide, encompassing most of the Tri-State Area and a good chunk o...

Toronto’s Massey Hall was the site of a now legendary bebop concert, producing the only live recording cut by the all-star quintet of ...

It seemed like there was a revolutionary spirit afoot on Broadway in early 2008, when two new musicals brought the theater world an infusion...

To thrive in talk radio, you have to be entertaining. With over 300 stations syndicating his three hour radio show and a new television sho...

After the violent protests and death threats provoked by the publication of a handful of relatively benign Danish cartoons satirizing (Heav...

Louis Armstrong believed he was born on July 4, 1900. Subsequent historical research might suggest otherwise, but why get hung up on mere de...