I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
On Song For My Father, Horace Silver combines his proven hardbop style with a new relaxedness, a gentle, Brazilian-inspired groove....
Billy Cobham’s virtuosic talent on the drums was no secret. George Benson, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Stanley Turrentine and many...
The Etta James album At Last! is the perfect subject for a stereo versus mono comparison. Singer Etta James landed...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
Latin jazz, rock jazz, gypsy jazz… we’ve seen it all back in the last century already. But in recent years,...
Before Banksy came along, there was Ernest Pignon-Ernest. This painter from Nice also placed his artworks illegally in public spaces...
Anyone who was a teenager in the USA around 1950 and played the trumpet ambitiously naturally wanted to become a...
This album has a special aura about it. It is one of the last studio recordings made in the USA...
There was nothing ordinary about Jutta Hipp, from the fact that she was the only white European woman signed to...