For many area jazz fans in the 1980s and 1990s, the Boston Jazz Society meant one thing: the Jazz Barbecue. It was the...
Cookin’ at the Boston Jazz Society’s Jazz Barbecue!
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Jazz festivals
The First Boston Globe Jazz Festival, 1966
George Wein didn’t say it in 1966, the year of the first Boston Globe Jazz Festival, but he did a few years later....
Boston’s Jazz All Night Concert
In the 1970s, Bostonians enjoyed a welcome one-night respite from their long winter blues: the Jazz All Night Concert....
A Brass Menagerie in Boston
There wasn’t anything else like the Brass Menagerie in Boston in the late 1960s. And even though there were...
Newport 1958: The Herb Pomeroy Orchestra
In July 2016, Pauline Bilsky at JazzBoston asked me to contribute a guest post on the Newport Jazz Festival to their...
Mar 16, 1984: The New Artie Shaw Orchestra
Opening night of the 13th Boston Globe Jazz Festival featured the return of one of the most newsworthy figures in the...
The Boston Days of Charlie Bourgeois
Charlie Bourgeois, who was George Wein’s director of public relations and right-hand man for over 60 years, died at...
The Second Boston Globe Jazz Festival
In the mid-1950s, the Boston Globe disdained jazz, and in 1955 even openly mocked George Wein’s efforts at Jazz Night...
The Charlie Mariano Boptet, 1950
Two of Boston’s finest modern-era saxophonists were born in November, 1923: Charlie Mariano on the 12th, and Serge...