When music approaches maximum complexity, vocal melodies just get in the way. Thankfully, djent – a highly technical offshoot of...
The first attempt had fallen flat. Back in 1969, Tim Hauser (1941–2014) had already led a five-member vocal group also...
As one of the first musical art forms created in the US to attain worldwide acclaim and acceptance, jazz straddles...
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The professor reactivates his fragmentary French for topical reasons – then proceeds to crank it up to pleine puissance with...
Understatement is the Canadian singer’s specialty. Even at the beginning of her career in the early 1990s, Holly Cole displayed...
I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
It was the cool jazz of Miles Davis that got him hooked on the trumpet. But when his own career...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that social distancing rules are deadly for jazz. This music thrives on communication among...
In their early days, Pink Floyd had two kinds of pieces: instrumental sound experiments and odd, quirky little songs. Only...