Guitarist Pat Martino cooked, especially in clubs. He’s probably best known for his version...
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The Fourmost Guitars, was a 1956, 12-inch release from ABC-Paramount that featured four different top...
Horace Parlan’s body of work remains special and he should be thought of as...
While this isn’t possible and wouldn’t be even if they were still with us...
Guitarist Grant Green recorded two gospel-flavored leadership albums for Blue Note. The first was Sunday...
Few artists ever traveled farther while keeping a foothold in the blues. Yusef Lateef,...
There are no bad recordings of pianist Thelonious Monk together with tenor saxophonist Charlie...
1938, a young woman stands playing in the centre of the screen, confident and...
Long before Bill Murray was making it a Suntory time, Davis brought VAN to...
The myth of jazz recordings is that they’re pure documents of what occurred in...
Awash in blues that blend into the sky on clear days, the mural of...
‘Central was like a river. A mighty river like the Amazon or the Nile,...
One day in the late Nineties, Dave Lombardo, the metal drumming powerhouse best known for...
As black Americans fought for equal rights in the 1960s, music reflected their calls...
On June 4, the iconoclastic composer, esteemed academic/pedagogical luminary, and free-jazz firebrand Anthony Braxton...
My New Yorker Culture Desk essay “Think of Monk” is a well-edited aerial view. What follows...
1930: The Orquesta Típica is out and the Conjunto is in The year 1930...
From Charlie Parker to Eddie Johnson, remembering jazz centenarians during a pandemic: Photos, Video
This was going to be a year of great jazz centennials. For 1920 marked...
A review of the book by Dafnis Prieto, entitled Rhythmic Synchronicity – Individual and...
The partnership between the British saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and a group of South African...
McCoy Tyner, who died on Friday at 81, has been a steadfast presence on the...
Miles Davis led such a prismatic and changeable career that any attempt at summation...
For some 60 years, beginning in the early 1950s, pianist-composer Dave Brubeck was one...
I prefer to pay attention when I listen to music, so if I need...
From May 1979 to September 1980, Laurie Verchomin was pianist Bill Evans’ lover. After their...
Charles Dickens, that prose poet of Christmas, believed that the end of the year—the...
Bandleader Glenn Miller, who was lost at sea 75 years ago, played and replayed...
Saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist Gene Jefferson — one of the finest human beings and greatest...