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After the unexpected commercial popularity of 1970, bassist Avishai Cohen returns with a very different sounding release consisting of nine new pieces and a traditional title track, its name...

From articles and books, interviews and face-to-face meetings it is clear that as with people in other walks of life jazz musicians are not all alike. Among all the...

“Jazz piano” is no more of a self-contained notion than is “Jazz saxophone”. After all, the music can be played on any instrument, although there will of course always...

The former drummer with Bobby Troup, Anita O'Day and others has assembled into a book 52 articles illuminating Mulligan's work and life

This is one of a series of taped interviews with musicians who are asked to give a snap opinion on a set of records played to them. Although no...

Fifty-six years after LBJ officially ended racial discrimination in the USA with the pen-stroke that signed the Civil Rights Act, the years immediately preceding February 1964 are still being...