In his introduction to The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums, noted authority Will Friedwald...
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2017 is Thelonious Monk’s hundredth anniversary year and as good a time as any...
In his final, terrible year of 1978, life was slipping from Charles Mingus each...
Beverley “David” Thorne, one of the last Case Study architects and the designer of...
You might not immediately think of jazz Christmas songs for Yuletide, but over the...
A host of seasonal songs may be categorized correctly as standards, and this well-known...
Acclaimed US jazz singer Gregory Porter has become the first winner of a MOBO...
The final omission from the original list was the fact that no women were...
As a kid, I’d gotten to see cats like Red Rodney, Zoot Sims and...
In jazz discussions, the saxophonists and the trumpetersgenerally dominate the conversation, and rightly so. Equally as integral...
I love “jazz samba”—early bossa nova albums recorded by American jazz artists in the...
The 10-inch vinyl LP is relatively rare nowadays, but fans of the format—and of...
