Dailey Pike didn’t come to Los Angeles in 1979 to make documentary movies. His life was stand-up comedy; he was on a first-name basis with Jay Leno and Arsenio Hall. He warmed up TV audiences for ...

Cheek To Cheek; Blues For Fred / They All Laughed; Night And Day; Here's That Rainy Day; Have You Met Miss Jones?; Passanova; Sultry; Indian Summer; Lush Life; Weaselocity; Giant Steps; Misty; Blues ...

There’s a popular, if somewhat misguided tendency amongst critical circles to rank musicians by relating them to those who have come before. Specific attention to the standing each one holds in ...

Jazz guitar virtuoso Joe Pass, who played with such legends as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Oscar Peterson, has died of liver cancer at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 65. Mr. Pass died about 5 a ...

Craft Recordings Original Jazz Classics Series adds two all-analog remasters from Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass on 180-gram vinyl. This jazz guitar essential has long been my favorite of the artist’s ...

Easy Living by Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass is one of six new reissues by The Concord Music Group in their ongoing Original Jazz Classics Remasters Series. Ella Fitzgerald was considered an American ...