Bandleader and flutist Christophe Dal Sasso (56) is a brilliant arranger. His specialty is big band arrangements of jazz classics...
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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...
As early as 1956, Sonny Rollins was regarded as the leading saxophonist in jazz – and little has changed to...
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...
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...
Anyone who was a teenager in the USA around 1950 and played the trumpet ambitiously naturally wanted to become a...