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Aug 30, 2024

At Syncopated Architecture, creating housing is our passion. This urban infill lot located in the heart of the Mission District of San Francisco was a prime...

Dispatches from the edge of the empire, one beat at a time. Click to read Syncopated Justice, by Bret Primack, a Substack publication with thousands of...

Oct 29, 2025 - When Caity Gyorgy won her second JUNO Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year, jealous critics crawled out of their hidey holes to diminish her achievement.

Sep 29, 2025 - If, like me, you love many styles of jazz, you probably look at ads for various jazz cruises and start planning or wishing. I’ve experienced six, run by

Oct 29, 2025 - The names of the personnel on this CD, with the exception of two, Pete Allen (leader of the Dukes of Wellington band) and Roger Marks (leader of the Armada

Oct 3, 2025 - There are songs that have entered the jazz vocabulary and never left: “Body and Soul,” “Stardust,” “Autumn Leaves,” and many others. We call these...

With over 60 years playing or promoting jazz behind him Van David Young has collected a number of interesting stories about the people he has met. He shares...

Sep 19, 2019 - Editors Note: As I was reading Tex Wyndham's book of collected Shouts this spring I had a growing feeling that they should be shared again. It was this

Apr 2, 2023 - Most of the musician pages below are at least started but some of these links will take you to biographies and discographies of the artist on the Archive.org

This month we celebrate one of our own: Lew Shaw, who turns 95 on January 14, and whose latest installment of Jazz Jottings may be found in this issue. Since

Oct 29, 2025 - When it comes to dancing, I don’t get around much any more. I had the option of going out last weekend, but I opted to stay in and watch a movie instead.

Oct 20, 2025 - On October 5, 2025, jazzman Frank Ward died. Frank was a greatly admired cornetist who was a longtime member of the historic Cakewalkin’ Jass Band. Although

Oct 29, 2025 - Only one U.S. president came close to becoming a jazz musician. Bill Clinton has often humorously stated that, while playing the tenor-sax as a teenager, he

Jun 30, 2024 - “It seemed the perfect way to fight my war.”– Josephine Baker

Oct 29, 2025 - This year our annual visit to England covered two very different Jazz events.

Oct 20, 2025 - The Syncopated Times is the only monthly newspaper focused on hot jazz, ragtime, and swing. Each issue includes original feature stories, interviews with the

Oct 20, 2025 - Trombonist and pianist Herb Gardner, a fixture of the New York and New England traditional-jazz scenes for more than six decades, passed away on September

Mar 30, 2023 - There’s been a lot made in the news in recent times about systemic issues in our education system. As I understand it, there seems to be a popular trend of

Aug 31, 2025 - The 54th Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival in Davenport, Iowa continued its tradition of excellence on July 31-August 3 at the perennially over-cooled Rhythm City

Aug 31, 2025 - The Century Room in the downtown Hotel Congress was again the venue for a terrific Sunday Gospel set! A lazy afternoon saw the Gospel According to Grown Folks

Dec 30, 2025 - The 32nd Annual Eagles & Ivories Music Fest is staged in Muscatine, Iowa, at five different locations. A free eagle watch takes place Saturday morning at

Apr 30, 2023 - “Everything happens for the best” Does it really? In a continuation of last month’s theme of reality being how we perceive it, perhaps the better motto...

Oct 29, 2025 - Getting ready to spend a few weeks in New Orleans and already craving some oysters! Our go-to place is Acme Oyster House on Iberville near Bourbon and even if

Oct 29, 2025 - Kyla Titus’s 2014 biography, co-authored posthumously in part with her mother Chica Boswell Minnerly, The Boswell Legacy: The Story of the Boswell Sisters of