Jazz is like a dense forest where it’s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a few...
Already in the early days of vinyl records, expensive recording projects were occasionally financed by subscription, i.e. by customers paying...
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The blues – this archaic, elementary song form – it just never gets old. The possibilities for varying the simple...
It was the cool jazz of Miles Davis that got him hooked on the trumpet. But when his own career...
Writer Eric Siblin writes, “It’s as if Bach had composed ideal music – music that transcends instruments; music invented to...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
At the age of nine, he was admitted to the Beijing Conservatory, but that was not enough for him. Along...
First there is this whistling. Perhaps a bird, a tern maybe? Or a member of the Neville Brothers? We don’t...
The Bremen-based distributor of audiophile recordings is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and we congratulate it with a review of some...