In April, Japan’s favorite jazz singer for more than 50 years returned for what she called her...
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The writer, all round jazz knowledge, jazz consultant at Universal and Editor-in-Chief of the udiscovermusic website, Richard Havers has...
Sixty-three years ago, on New Year’s Day in 1955, pianist Teddy Wilson, bassist Milt Hinton and drummer...
Today’s Jazz Singers on Ella Fitzgerald. Apologies to James Brown, but Ella Fitzgerald, who would have turned...
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...
