Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
There’s a recurring figure in jazz history: the young, heroic trumpeter who suffered a tragic death much too early on...
When David Murray came to New York at the age of 20 (1975), he had something of a wild and...
Hiromi Uehara is known as a flamboyant whirlwind on the jazz piano. But her ambitions reach far beyond that. The...
The first attempt had fallen flat. Back in 1969, Tim Hauser (1941–2014) had already led a five-member vocal group also...
The Etta James album At Last! is the perfect subject for a stereo versus mono comparison. Singer Etta James landed...
As one of the first musical art forms created in the US to attain worldwide acclaim and acceptance, jazz straddles...
Billy Cobham’s virtuosic talent on the drums was no secret. George Benson, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Stanley Turrentine and many...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
There was nothing ordinary about Jutta Hipp, from the fact that she was the only white European woman signed to...