Chas Chandler had gained fame as the bassist of Eric Burdon’s Animals. When the Animals broke up in 1966, he...
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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...
Marc-André Hamelin is one of the greatest living adventurers on the piano. No one plays the avant-gardists of yesterday and...
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...
Bach’s Musical Offering challenges creativity, even with deliberately unfinished inversion and riddle canons. Bach also relies on the musicians’ imagination...
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...
Trumpeter Shorty Rogers was regarded as the head and central figure of the West Coast scene. This scene was not...