The jazz world mourns the passing of legendary drummer Jimmy Cobb.  2020, with the horrendous pandemic sweeping globally will go […]

Welcome to the New York Jazz Workshop In Conversation at home podcast. The music you are hearing is  “The Resistance” […]

How should one approach listening to jazz?  Listening to the genre itself is a fine art, and can seem like […]

Covid-19 has been especially hard on musicians and for The New York Jazz Workshop. Just as we invested $100,000 on […]

The jazz landscape has been rapidly changing over the past thirty years.  What styles of jazz are most enduring?  Every […]

The New York Jazz Workshop’s CJ Shearn offers a reflection on the passing of jazz piano legend McCoy Tyner.  Below […]

What is soul jazz? For individuals getting into jazz, this is a good question.  Jazz (or Black American Music depending […]

In this blog post, New York Jazz Workshop’s CJ Shearn offers a personal, heartfelt statement on the brilliant pianist Lyle […]

NEA Jazz master Jimmy Heath, one of the all time greats of the saxophone, and of composing and arranging left […]

Part I of this article focused on the large American jazz market which was a natural outgrowth of the commercial […]

Tenor saxophonist David “Chase” Baird has been a powerful presence on the New York jazz scene for many years.  Born […]

In the latest installment of the  New York Jazz Workshop in Conversation With podcast series, I speak with drummer/multi instrumentalist […]