Nina Simone recorded her debut album Little Girl Blue in 1957 and she would not record again for two more years. In 1959, she signed a new contract with...
He was a blues player and he wasn’t a jazz player - especially in the more strictly defined terms of the 1960s, when the jazz-guitar hegemony was Charlie Christian,...
Despite England’s woeful end in the cricket last month against India, Matthew Wright’s new book, drawing on the perhaps unusual yet prevalent connections between jazz and cricket is both...
With this, Wynton Marsalis has come up with his most interesting album thus far. That is not to say that it is entirely flawless, but it kindles a spark...
This multi award-winning documentary film by Bruce Spiegel was eight years in the making, and features over 40 interviews, including some with those who were closest to Evans, whether...