Face it. It’s a tough call to find yourself a genuine jazz hero and especially since Miles checked out a little early.

“Watts plays in a virtuosic post-Coltrane style, with a fine, distinctive tone and an expansive technique that permits him to generate long, cleanly articulated lines that dance along confidently even at challenging tempos …”
JazzTimes Magazine

The Mighty Prin Thonglor tells us the awesome Buranakarn Band plays fusion jazz at Adhere the 13th Blues Bar every Monday night.

At the opening of the spanking new Overtone Music Cave on RCA Friday 27th, local blues singer, guitar player and band leader Mekong Doctor Blues took along his recently purchased Fender Squier Olarn Signature Model, a Fender instrument endorsed by Thai guitar legend Olarn Promjai, and at the jazz club asked Olarn to sign the guitar for posterity

Looks like we have a real jazz venue in town at last !

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is to follow in the footsteps of Sir Paul McCartney by releasing her next album through the coffee chain Starbucks.

A band made up of the godfather of fusion guitar, the undisputed greatest innovator of the electric bass guitar and the best drummer of them all is a fusion jazz dream.

As a jazz writer I often get asked what’s the best recent album around or what’s worth hearing. Man that’s a big responsibility and anyway there’s a whole lotta jazz out there. But seeing as I am privy to the lists of what the Grammy judges were considering, here’s the pre-award shortlists and as Miles would say, you can bet this s&@t better be good to be getting this far…

You can do all the denying you like, but ‘smooth jazz’ is an important force in music to be reckoned with today, and can not simply be dimissed by ‘real jazz buffs’ as the ‘Kenny G’ crowd either, because it simply ain’t so…smooth jazz involves a number of very gifted jazz stars and we even have our own smooth jazz radio station at Breeze 98.5FM here in Bangkok, so we should at least be paying attention to the genre.

While hyperbolic album titles often invite ridicule, not a dissenting voice was to be heard when this collection of tunes -The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery - was first released to the world. It was Wes Montgomery’s second session for Riverside and highlighted his many strengths in no uncertain terms. The warm tone of his guitar and astounding speed he achieved using his thumb instead of a pick…

The Blues Doctor says LIVE consultations relieve stress!

The music biz is not big on anniversaries, but the business has been home to some of the most influential individuals in history – some having inspired listeners to become players and some changing the very face of music as we know it.