The drug addiction of singer Syd Barret at the beginning, later the legendary ongoing feud with bassist Roger Waters, and...
Today, we’re visiting a completely different venue: not a studio, nor a hall familiar from many recordings, but an opera...
It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
Today, the professor breaks down the genre boundaries of his soul revue once again, grooving to new, sometimes strange works...
In the 1970s, rock versions of classical music weren’t considered cringe yet. Emerson Lake & Palmer rocked Mussorgsky’s Pictures at...
Piano music offers an inexhaustible treasure trove of expressive possibilities that have developed over the centuries. Two recent recordings by...
First there is this whistling. Perhaps a bird, a tern maybe? Or a member of the Neville Brothers? We don’t...
It was the cool jazz of Miles Davis that got him hooked on the trumpet. But when his own career...
Chas Chandler had gained fame as the bassist of Eric Burdon’s Animals. When the Animals broke up in 1966, he...
A comparative appraisal of the in-house audiophile reissues from Blue Note and ECM For some years now, audiophile vinyl reissues...