Listening to Ellington: Intimacy and Opulence Side by Side. The music of Duke Ellington exists on every scale – from...
He recorded his first song when he was 18—supposedly it was meant to be just a birthday gift for his...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it’s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a few...
Bandleader and flutist Christophe Dal Sasso (56) is a brilliant arranger. His specialty is big band arrangements of jazz classics...
Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem is one of jazz’s truly magical places. Since 1938, the club on West 118th Street in...
I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
Cat Lovers and Cigar Boxes Blues Women: Soul Sisters, Blues Ladies, Gospel Queens and their new CDs — Blues Brother...
This album has a special aura about it. It is one of the last studio recordings made in the USA...
Hiromi Uehara is known as a flamboyant whirlwind on the jazz piano. But her ambitions reach far beyond that. The...
Jazz calls for abstraction – Sabine Kühlich and Laia Genc picked up on the vision that dictated the design of...