Anyone who was a teenager in the USA around 1950 and played the trumpet ambitiously naturally wanted to become a...
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The exalted marble statues on the album cover don’t exactly look happy and healthy. Mick Box, the guitarist, later said...
1967 was the big year of psychedelia. It wasn’t just about LSD, the summer of love, colorful fantasy outfits, sitar...
This album has a special aura about it. It is one of the last studio recordings made in the USA...
As early as 1956, Sonny Rollins was regarded as the leading saxophonist in jazz – and little has changed to...
Often misunderstood, often admired: Beethoven’s Opus 133 immediately gives us “the feeling of the extraordinary and the utmost seriousness, the...
In the 1980s, the ole fifties were far enough in the past to become “chic” again. Gentlemen’s hats, shoulder pads,...
Billy Cobham’s virtuosic talent on the drums was no secret. George Benson, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Stanley Turrentine and many...
Sometimes the best ideas are born out of necessity. When no piano was available on the stage of the jazz...