Guitarist Wes Montgomery’s legendary 1965 concert in Paris has been released under many titles, yet it had...
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Yesterday, I listened to British tenor saxophonist Leo Richardson’s new album. It pays tribute to American hard...
Yesterday, I came across this splendid newly surfaced video of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, featuring Paul Desmond,...
The 1950s provide us with an endless bounty of tasty trumpet players whose names are largely forgotten...
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...
