Hiromi Uehara is known as a flamboyant whirlwind on the jazz piano. But her ambitions reach far beyond that. The...
Soul sings Country, Country sings Soul – For his employer Ace Records, he first compiled three CDs with soul-interpreted country...
On Song For My Father, Horace Silver combines his proven hardbop style with a new relaxedness, a gentle, Brazilian-inspired groove....
Africa, Africa, again and again. His father, a follower of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, had already impressed upon him at a...
Jazz is indeed a big forest—and it s certainly easy to overlook some momentous trees. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
Anyone who was a teenager in the USA around 1950 and played the trumpet ambitiously naturally wanted to become a...
Speakers Corner releases two jazz classics in exemplary editions. It’s hard to believe that, until recently, there were no current...
Jazz calls for abstraction – Sabine Kühlich and Laia Genc picked up on the vision that dictated the design of...