Anyone who was a teenager in the USA around 1950 and played the trumpet ambitiously naturally wanted to become a...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that social distancing rules are deadly for jazz. This music thrives on communication among...
The Etta James album At Last! is the perfect subject for a stereo versus mono comparison. Singer Etta James landed...
Trumpeter Shorty Rogers was regarded as the head and central figure of the West Coast scene. This scene was not...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
Crystal clear recordings in magical sonic beauty – that’s the headline to the production and indeed. The incredible clarity of...
As one of the first musical art forms created in the US to attain worldwide acclaim and acceptance, jazz straddles...
Billy Cobham’s virtuosic talent on the drums was no secret. George Benson, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Stanley Turrentine and many...
Africa, Africa, again and again. His father, a follower of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, had already impressed upon him at a...
Latin jazz, rock jazz, gypsy jazz… we’ve seen it all back in the last century already. But in recent years,...