Richie Beirach

Michael Lake of Musicsavvy.com interviewed my long-time friend and musical colleague trombonist Conrad Herwig. Michael got Conrad talking about some of our history and a funny story about my obsession one night with a certain polychord.

I'm writing something that will be published early this summer about the intersection of great jazz and commercial success. One example, of which there are too few in jazz, is Miles' Kind Of Blue. This is the best selling jazz…

Michael Lake recently wrote a post called, Is jazz becoming a caricature of itself. I left a comment and a couple of replies to comments that I disagreed with - okay, that I REALLY disagreed with!  

The topic of…