Professional musician Stefan Gawlick is on the road all over the world. Not only in concert halls, but also in...
As one of the first musical art forms created in the US to attain worldwide acclaim and acceptance, jazz straddles...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it’s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a few...
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On Song For My Father, Horace Silver combines his proven hardbop style with a new relaxedness, a gentle, Brazilian-inspired groove....
Understatement is the Canadian singer’s specialty. Even at the beginning of her career in the early 1990s, Holly Cole displayed...
French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was an extremely cosmopolitan musician. He was inspired by samba in Rio de Janeiro as...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
What is so simply called the “Liederhalle” in Stuttgart is generally associated with the large concert hall, officially named Beethoven...