As one of the first musical art forms created in the US to attain worldwide acclaim and acceptance, jazz straddles...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
Jazz is like a dense forest where it’s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a few...
Japanese pressings have long been more than just an insider tip among audiophile vinyl lovers. High time to take a...
Hiromi Uehara is known as a flamboyant whirlwind on the jazz piano. But her ambitions reach far beyond that. The...
Anyone who was a teenager in the USA around 1950 and played the trumpet ambitiously naturally wanted to become a...
Nobody else does what Monika Roscher does. With her 18-piece Munich big band, Monika Roscher builds an original bridge between...
It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that social distancing rules are deadly for jazz. This music thrives on communication among...
Artificial intelligence is taking over the world – unfortunately the world of music as well. The internet is full of...