Billy Cobham’s virtuosic talent on the drums was no secret. George Benson, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Stanley Turrentine and many...
Jon and Dave had hit a rough patch. There were hardly any jobs for them, no record deals, no money....
It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
Sometimes the best ideas are born out of necessity. When no piano was available on the stage of the jazz...
Trumpeter Shorty Rogers was regarded as the head and central figure of the West Coast scene. This scene was not...
Speakers Corner releases two jazz classics in exemplary editions. It’s hard to believe that, until recently, there were no current...
Jazz is like a dense forest, where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it’s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a few...
In an art form driven by tempo, virtuosity, and expressiveness, Mal Waldron was a quiet exception. Born in 1925 in...
Bandleader and flutist Christophe Dal Sasso (56) is a brilliant arranger. His specialty is big band arrangements of jazz classics...