With the 10-inch LP format on the rise in the early 1950s, a crew...
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When Steve Swallow picked up an electric bass in an instrument convention in 1970,...
If you are interested in places where magical music was created and you happen...
On the evening of November 17, 1959 Ornette Coleman’s quartet took the tiny stage...
When producer Orrin Keepnews signed Thelonious Monk to his newly formed Riverside label in...
After kicking his heroin habit at his father’s house in 1953, he came back to New...
Stax Records was the South’s answer to Motown and Atlantic, and the African-American response...
Maxine Gordon. Historian, researcher, author, producer, scholar, consultant. President of the Dexter Gordon Society...
Trumpeter Yoshio Toyama and his wife Keiko moved to the United States 50 years...
A pianist explains how he transcribed the complex solos of the late great jazz...
Sixty years ago, the American folklorists Samuel Charters and Ann Danberg visited the Fresh Creek...
Rock and pop are in a creative crisis. Now jazz should judge it. A...
