Author Archives: The Independent Ear

When drummer-composer-bandleader-educator-activist NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington set out to right a historic wrong – i.e. the sad and ongoing lack of recognition for women’s compositions as vehicles of jazz expressions, she craftily went about assembling a vehicle for … Continue reading →

By now you’ve likely seen the clip of Vice President and presidential nominee Kamala Harris exiting a DC record store with an armful of Lp purchases, notably including several jazz releases, among them Charles Mingus and Roy Ayers. The story … Continue reading →

Gentleman of Jazz is the image that reading this book and recalling the original piano trio of the late NEA Jazz Master pianist Ramsey Lewis will most assuredly yield. Essentially an “as told to” autobiography written by Chicago-based music writer … Continue reading →

The Landfill Chronicles: Unearthing Legends of Modern Music by Dan Ouellette (publisher: Cymbal Press) When veteran jazz journalist and Ron Carter biographer Dan Ouellette’s current book The Landfill Chronicles was released (and read the book for Dan’s intro on how … Continue reading →

For part 4 of our ongoing series of dialogues with jazz radio programmers/show hosts we hear from Brad Stone, who broadcasts jazz programming out of a streaming platform from just south of the San Francisco Bay Area. And we hear … Continue reading →