What defines a jazz singer? Is it the musical language they use or the nature of the...
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Pianist Oscar Peterson first heard guitarist Herb Ellis in the spring of 1953. Ellis was playing at...
Back in the summer of 1965, I traveled out to Seattle, chasing after my college sweetheart who...
Posting about Hal McKusick yesterday and re-reading my interviews with him, I was reminded of arranger George...
Abstraction came late to jazz. New York’s abstract expressionism art movement emerged in the late 1940s and...
In the first half of 1955 Miles Davis was in a much better shape than he was...
