To help navigate through the jazz tag in the sidebar, here’s a roundup of some of my main posts so far. Many of them are based on playlists, as I educate myself on some substantial ouevres…

From the Golden Age:

• Lives in jazz
• Billie Holiday, and sequel
• Nina Simone
• Miles meets Bird
• Some middle-period Miles
• The great Bill Evans
• Fats Navarro
• Clifford Brown
• Lee Morgan
• The spiritual path of John Coltrane
• In memory of Wayne Shorter
• Herbie Hancock
• Pharaoh Sanders
• Chet Baker: Deep in a dream, and Chet in Italy
• Mingus
• Mary Lou Williams
• Frank Morgan
• Art Pepper
• David Murray
• Jazz at Ronnie’s!
• Jazz and Cantonese music in London
• George Melly owns up
• Thoughts inspired by Gershwin’s Rhapsody in blue.

Chet Baker https://stephenjones.blog/2017/10/28/chet/

See also

• New Orleans brass bands
• Dr Don Shirley.

Moving on,

• Ute Lemper
• Hiromi
• Barcelona: The magic of the voice, with sequel; also Andrea Motis in London!!!
• Some jazz fiddling
• Back to black
• The lost women of British jazz
• Django Bates
• New British jazz
• Yazz Ahmed at the LJF
• Judi Jackson and Cleo Sol
• Gilad Atzmon.

Further afield,

• Midnight at the Pera Palace
• Jazz in Turkey
• Ostinato: jazz in Istanbul
• Jazz in Kuzguncuk!
• Turkish jazz in London
• Shanghai jazz
• Jazz in post-war Japan
• Polish jazz, then and now
• Tomasz Stańko (also here)
• Wind, ethnicity, gender
• Hidden histories
• Ethio-jazz (and, nearly, The honky-tonk nun)
• Jonny spielt auf
• By the sleepy lagoon

More songs:

• My favorite things
• Night and day
• Somewhere over the rainbow
• You must believe in spring

An affectionate spoof:

• Jazz Club on the Fast Show.

And on a linguistic note:

• The gig.