I DIG JAZZ

Live Concert Reviews from Detroit's Jazz Scene

Monday, May 30, 2011

BOOGIE CONSCIOUS

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T rumpeter Tom Harrell wrote nine new songs for his latest album Time of the Sun , which High Note Records is releasing Tuesday. Harrell has...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

PICK UP A COPY

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Recently, I Dig Jazz came across three jazz albums A Matter of Black and White Jaki Byard Live at the Keystone Korner Vol. 2, Twogether and ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

SOLO FEVER

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T he popular thing among some jazz piano players nowadays is making a solo album. Geri Allen made one last year. A reissued solo album by th...
Monday, May 23, 2011

HARD BOP COMFORT ZONE

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S ean Jones’s followers pretty much know what to expect from a Sean Jones album, a straight-up swing affair mixed with some warm and fuzzy b...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

DULL DUET

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Renee Rosnes and Bill Charlap A t Detroit's Orchestra Hall Friday evening, husband and wife duo Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes closed ...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

MIDDLE AGE BLUES

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L ike his peers Tim Warfield, Joshua Redmond, Craig Handy, and James Carter, Eric Alexander is a middle age saxophonist now. Being that hasn...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

MASTERPIECE

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A t this stage of his career, James Carter can put out any kind of album he wants to. At one of Carter’s concerts, I overheard someone sayin...
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Charles L. Latimer
is a veteran jazz journalist based in Michigan.Since 1997, he's covered jazz for the alternative newspaper the Metrotimes. He's been writing this jazz blog since 2007.
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