It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
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Chas Chandler had gained fame as the bassist of Eric Burdon’s Animals. When the Animals broke up in 1966, he...
Jon and Dave had hit a rough patch. There were hardly any jobs for them, no record deals, no money....
Bootlegs became all the rage around 1969. These illegal recordings of rock concerts were made less out of greed and...
In the 1970s, rock versions of classical music weren’t considered cringe yet. Emerson Lake & Palmer rocked Mussorgsky’s Pictures at...
He came to Europe in 1976 and studied in Berlin and Freiburg. Ever since, Toshio Hosokawa has maintained close ties...
The blues – this archaic, elementary song form – it just never gets old. The possibilities for varying the simple...
It was the cool jazz of Miles Davis that got him hooked on the trumpet. But when his own career...
Bandleader and flutist Christophe Dal Sasso (56) is a brilliant arranger. His specialty is big band arrangements of jazz classics...
Africa, Africa, again and again. His father, a follower of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, had already impressed upon him at a...