In honor of the birthday of pioneering jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer, and arranger Eddie Durham, I am reposting an interview with Loren Schoenberg about the PBS documentary he helped to produce called Wham Rebop Boom Bam: The Swing Jazz of Eddie Durham. Schoenberg is the Senior Scholar at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem as...Read More

Jazz88 Morning Host Peter Solomon speaks with composer and saxophonist Stephanie Wieseler and bassist Charlie Bruber about the long awaited new recording by Society of Chemists. The Twin Cities-based ensemble has a unique musical approach with they describe as “chamber jazz fusion.” They discuss what that means, and Wieseler talks about the ways she sometimes...Read More

In honor of the 125th anniversary of the borth of Louis Armstrong, we are reposting an interview with Ricki Riccardi, the Director of Resaerch Collections at the Louis Armstrong House and Museum and the author of three biographies of Armstrong. In this segment, he speaks with Jazz88’s Peter Solomon about his most recent book, called...Read More

Yonci speaks with producer and arranger Adrian Younge, who’s work with the label Jazz Is Dead spans 27 albums over almost a decade.Read More

Logan Richardson in a saxophonist, composer and producer who will be Artist in Residence July 29th through 31st at Berlin in Minneapolis. He speaks with Peter Solomon about growing up in Kansas City in the 1980’s and how that shaped him as an artist. Richardson’s music incoporates a lot of sampling and sound manipulation in...Read More