From the electric guitar, a gentle, easy to hum along ballad theme sparkles into the void. Delicately knit string tapestries...
Artificial intelligence is taking over the world – unfortunately the world of music as well. The internet is full of...
Soul sings Country, Country sings Soul – For his employer Ace Records, he first compiled three CDs with soul-interpreted country...
Jazz is indeed a big forest—and it s certainly easy to overlook some momentous trees. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out...
Around the year 2000, Dave Douglas was widely regarded as jazz’s greatest “hope for the future,” as jazz historian Dan...
This time around in Vinyl Corner, we’re devoting ourselves entirely to the phenomenon of 45-rpm sound, listening to reissues from...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
There’s a recurring figure in jazz history: the young, heroic trumpeter who suffered a tragic death much too early on...
Understatement is the Canadian singer’s specialty. Even at the beginning of her career in the early 1990s, Holly Cole displayed...