Like the history of cinema, the history of jazz depends largely on availability, which is why roundups of...
Day: January 6, 2018
Trumpeter Donald Byrd first came to New York from Detroit in 1955, when he was 22. While...
Authorship of the jazz standard Four has always been in question. Miles Davis was the first to record the...
Actor Idris Elba has set his sights on playing one of his favourite musicians: pianist and composer...
Blues/jazz producer and 70’s soul singer Ollan Christopher Bell has released his memoir, Music Saved My Life: From...
Since his arrival on the jazz scene in the 1970s, pianist Fred Hersch has developed from a...
