Today Is The Question, Round 2
Ted PankenThis is a Substack version of my same-named blog, which contains many of my articles about and verbatim interviews of jazz and jazz-adjacent practitioners - I'll present old wine in this new bottle, but also current work.
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“Art Blakey: The Mightiest Mentor” - Centennial Article for Downbeat, January 2020
Photograph from Milesdavis.com
“Art plays the same thing now that he played when he was in B’s (Billy Eckstine’s) band. But the reason Art is so great, he loves music. And every time he plays the drums, he’s playing it like some...
“The Bradley’s Hang”: Downbeat, 2006, plus interviews
Photograph by Jimmy Katz
Thirty years ago today, on October 20, 1996, was the final night that Bradley’s, the sui generis piano saloon, was open for business. It was a special place for me, and untold numbers of musicians and music-lo...
Drummers’ Memorial Roundtable on Billy Higgins on WKCR, May 7, 2001 - posted on the 90th anniversary of his birth
For this writer, any gig that included drum master Billy Higgins was a must-see. I can’t think of another musician who consistently embodied the principle of playing with an in-the-moment, creative attitude while always attending to the fun...
“Smalls Universe,” Downbeat June 2006, writers’ cut. The article that earned me the 2007 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, plus transcripts of interviews conducted for the article
I received the 2007 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism for “Smalls Universe,” who ran in the June 2006 issue of Downbeat. It traced the formation during the previous decade of the scene at Smalls, the still-thriving...
Scott Robinson’s premiere of “Reach For Tomorrow” and performance with aRT Trio on Oct. 1, 2026
I attended both ends of Scott Robinson’s day-night doubleheader yesterday -- reporting on it for a Downbeat Beat piece in December. A few hours before presenting the premier presentation of his 15-minute-long symphony, “Reach for Tomorrow,”...
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