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Ramsey Lewis is a jazz pianist, composer and bandleader who has been highly successful and influential in popularising jazz through his crossover chart successes during [More]
Sorghum Switch (Jesse Stone). New York trombone player Doc Wheeler first recorded Sorghum Switch, a song about a sugarcane switch, in November 1941 with his [More]
One of the keys to understanding what Laplante is trying to do on Blade of Love comes from Laplante himself: There were certain specific sounds [More]
Connie Evingson – Solitude Paintings – Carri Graber
Passages (Vijay Iyer). From the album A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke. Thom Jurek in his review for Allmusic says that “The instincts these players offer [More]
Frank Rosolino performs “Misty” with the Bubba Kolb Trio at the Village Jazz Lounge in 1978. Personnel: Frank Rosolino – trombone Bubba Kolb – piano [More]
Blacks and Blues is the third studio album by American jazz flutist Bobbi Humphrey recorded in 1973 and released on the Blue Note label. “Bobbi [More]
Richard Bona does not only play the e-bass in a harmonic and hypnotic way , but also his singing in the dialect of Douala is [More]
“At an overbooked all-star saxophone concert held in 1965 Berlin, the musicians were supposed to only play for 15 minutes. Tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin protested [More]
“… Joining Eubanks on this outing is longtime collaborator and former Berklee College of Music schoolmate, drummer Marvin “Smitty” Smith, who fuels the West Coast [More]