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...
Exceptional publications that you should treat yourself or others to. Let’s start this one with a little philosophical reflection: It’s...
That smell! Nothing compares! Old record sleeves, the dust of decades past. While record stores are dying out at an...
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...
I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
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...
This album has a special aura about it. It is one of the last studio recordings made in the USA...