Understatement is the Canadian singer’s specialty. Even at the beginning of her career in the early 1990s, Holly Cole displayed...
It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
Let’s be real: when you fancy a concert in the evening while visiting the world’s major cities, don’t you primarily...
As one of the first musical art forms created in the US to attain worldwide acclaim and acceptance, jazz straddles...
The first attempt had fallen flat. Back in 1969, Tim Hauser (1941–2014) had already led a five-member vocal group also...
It was the cool jazz of Miles Davis that got him hooked on the trumpet. But when his own career...
As early as 1956, Sonny Rollins was regarded as the leading saxophonist in jazz – and little has changed to...
What common goal do a Moscow-born artist and a jazz fan with Cuban roots who live in Denver with their...
Africa, Africa, again and again. His father, a follower of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, had already impressed upon him at a...
Billy Cobham’s virtuosic talent on the drums was no secret. George Benson, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Stanley Turrentine and many...