Listening to Ellington: Intimacy and Opulence Side by Side. The music of Duke Ellington exists on every scale – from...
He recorded his first song when he was 18—supposedly it was meant to be just a birthday gift for his...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it’s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a few...
Bandleader and flutist Christophe Dal Sasso (56) is a brilliant arranger. His specialty is big band arrangements of jazz classics...
I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
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This album has a special aura about it. It is one of the last studio recordings made in the USA...
Hiromi Uehara is known as a flamboyant whirlwind on the jazz piano. But her ambitions reach far beyond that. The...
Jazz calls for abstraction – Sabine Kühlich and Laia Genc picked up on the vision that dictated the design of...
The Sam Records label brings French-American jazz history back to life. If we vinyl nerds are being completely honest, we...