Mr. Clarinet Jazz is like a dense forest, where it’s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out...
French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was an extremely cosmopolitan musician. He was inspired by samba in Rio de Janeiro as...
There was nothing ordinary about Jutta Hipp, from the fact that she was the only white European woman signed to...
Soul sings Country, Country sings Soul – For his employer Ace Records, he first compiled three CDs with soul-interpreted country...
In the 1980s, the ole fifties were far enough in the past to become “chic” again. Gentlemen’s hats, shoulder pads,...
There’s a recurring figure in jazz history: the young, heroic trumpeter who suffered a tragic death much too early on...
Africa, Africa, again and again. His father, a follower of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, had already impressed upon him at a...
Jazz calls for abstraction – Sabine Kühlich and Laia Genc picked up on the vision that dictated the design of...
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....