Around the year 2000, Dave Douglas was widely regarded as jazz’s greatest “hope for the future,” as jazz historian Dan...
It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
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...
It was the cool jazz of Miles Davis that got him hooked on the trumpet. But when his own career...
The alto saxophonist Ernie Henry (1926–1957) played with Monk, Mingus, and Gillespie – and he was on the verge of...
The Etta James album At Last! is the perfect subject for a stereo versus mono comparison. Singer Etta James landed...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
With a powerful tenor saxophone in hand, you can growl aggressively, purr sensually, or simply let intuition take over. The...