There was already a Hammond organ in his father’s club, and it seemed to be just waiting for him. By...
Intimate Chamber Jazz For Every Mood My first thought as I pick up the brand new double LP Four Seasons...
Billy Cobham’s virtuosic talent on the drums was no secret. George Benson, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Stanley Turrentine and many...
Sometimes the best ideas are born out of necessity. When no piano was available on the stage of the jazz...
As one of the first musical art forms created in the US to attain worldwide acclaim and acceptance, jazz straddles...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
Soul sings Country, Country sings Soul – For his employer Ace Records, he first compiled three CDs with soul-interpreted country...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
Africa, Africa, again and again. His father, a follower of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, had already impressed upon him at a...
When David Murray came to New York at the age of 20 (1975), he had something of a wild and...