Ben Webster News

The two most recent Verve Master Editions are similar in that they both feature the Oscar Peterson Trio as the rhythm section and both were originally recorded in 1957.

The "Lost Jazz Shrines" concert series, hosted by the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in downtown Manhattan, is now in its third year.

In new mainstream, the old 32-bar standard song form is out the window, replaced by segments or sections that might require the improviser to negotiate shifting time signatures and/or shifting tempi... Back in the day, the term "mainstream" was intended to apply to jazz that fell between the radicalism of bebop and the galumphing stodginess of ... (more)

KCSM 91.1 Operations Director and co-host of the station's "Morning Cup of Jazz" is making what's become an annual appearance in Menlo Park in a program supported by the Friends of the Menlo Park Library.

Roger Kellaway could not be called a best kept secret. He's been active for over 40 years, performing with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Zoot Sims, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Barbra Streisand, and yes, Bobby Darin, the subject of the first two discs reviewed here.