Mr. Clarinet Jazz is like a dense forest, where it’s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
Aka Moon is a jazz trio that has been around for over 30 years now and can be considered an...
Africa, Africa, again and again. His father, a follower of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, had already impressed upon him at a...
It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
Exceptional publications that you should treat yourself or others to. Let’s start this one with a little philosophical reflection: It’s...
I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
Trumpeter Shorty Rogers was regarded as the head and central figure of the West Coast scene. This scene was not...
French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was an extremely cosmopolitan musician. He was inspired by samba in Rio de Janeiro as...