On Song For My Father, Horace Silver combines his proven hardbop style with a new relaxedness, a gentle, Brazilian-inspired groove....
In the 1980s, the ole fifties were far enough in the past to become “chic” again. Gentlemen’s hats, shoulder pads,...
It was the cool jazz of Miles Davis that got him hooked on the trumpet. But when his own career...
The blues – this archaic, elementary song form – it just never gets old. The possibilities for varying the simple...
Jazz calls for abstraction – Sabine Kühlich and Laia Genc picked up on the vision that dictated the design of...
As one of the first musical art forms created in the US to attain worldwide acclaim and acceptance, jazz straddles...
The alto saxophonist Ernie Henry (1926–1957) played with Monk, Mingus, and Gillespie – and he was on the verge of...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
Album Copycats: Miles, Miles and Geils: Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers...