Today’s Jazz Singers on Ella Fitzgerald. Apologies to James Brown, but Ella Fitzgerald, who would have turned...
Month: December 2017
Forty-eight years ago this month, pianist Thelonious Monk appeared in Berlin at the Berliner Jazztage festival. Translated,...
The history of the Count Basie orchestra is generally divided into two broad periods – the Old...
The trumpet enjoys a renaissance in jazz. The trumpeters vary the tone between feverish power and gentle...
It is almost exactly 60 years since NDR editor Hans Gertberg created a new tradition with the...
My birthday is January 20, a day that has seen its share of snowstorms, Super Bowls, and...
