Surround sound and immersive audio are increasingly common in pop music. Do these technologies make sense for jazz recordings? Does...
The Etta James album At Last! is the perfect subject for a stereo versus mono comparison. Singer Etta James landed...
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too....
Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane released about 40 albums as a bandleader during his lifetime. Among them Blue Train always took...
It was 1955 when Donald Byrd’s career really took off. The young trumpeter joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and also...
I rarely go purposefully about buying records. Routinely, I let the look of the cover bait me into the purchase....
It was the cool jazz of Miles Davis that got him hooked on the trumpet. But when his own career...
Jazz is like a dense forest where it s easy to overlook something important. Hans Jürgen Schaal points out a...
Let’s be real: when you fancy a concert in the evening while visiting the world’s major cities, don’t you primarily...