Jazz

30 Best live albums countdown: 26 – The Köln Concert by Keith Jarret

1432 people in the audience, one piano player. A huge stage and a tiny piano. When the first notes came…

12 years ago

Today: The late Dexter Gordon was born in 1923 – 90 years ago

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up. ~Dexter Gordon Jazz to me is a…

12 years ago

Today: Smokey Robinson is 73

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened…

12 years ago

Today the late Django Reinhardt was born in 1910 – 103 years ago

Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music,…

12 years ago

Today: The late Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly) was born in 1888 – 125 years ago

“The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to…

12 years ago