Today, we’re visiting a completely different venue: not a studio, nor a hall familiar from many recordings, but an opera...
The Professor is relaxing in his rocking chair today, his three-legged cat in his lap and the one-eyed alligator at...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was an extremely cosmopolitan musician. He was inspired by samba in Rio de Janeiro as...
Professional musician Stefan Gawlick travels the world and knows almost every major concert hall around the globe. In this series,...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that social distancing rules are deadly for jazz. This music thrives on communication among...