Sixty-three years ago, on New Year’s Day in 1955, pianist Teddy Wilson, bassist Milt Hinton and drummer...
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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...
The trumpet enjoys a renaissance in jazz. The trumpeters vary the tone between feverish power and gentle...
Columbia was scorned by jazz fans and critics. The double album featured Thelonious Monk recorded in 1963...
