Across The Pond

Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, by Nina Simone

Nina Simone is one of the best interpreters in popular music. She wrote over 40 songs, including some of her best such as Mississippi Goddam and Four Women. However throughout her...

Turkish Mambo, by Lennie Tristano

The technique of overdubbing is second nature to recording artists and sound engineers. You record layers of musical performances one after another until you are satisfied that...

Ray Charles last Raelette ~ Andromeda Turre ~ New live EP

After studying at Berklee College of Music and The Boston Conservatory, New York City native Andromeda Turre kickstarted her career as the last Raelette hired to sing for Ray...

Three Views of a Secret, a portrait of Jaco Pastorius

Joe Zawinul was not an easy man to impress, even if you were Jaco Pastorius. On a flight to Japan in 1981, when the rough mixes for what would become his second solo album Word of...

Esperanza Spalding Appointed to Harvard’s Music Department Faculty

Earlier this week Harvard University’s music department announced that Esperanza Spalding will join the faculty of the Department of Music as Professor of the Practice, with...

Get Totally Jazzed @ Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2017

Vancouver, BC, pulls at more than my guitar strings.  I spent 16 years of full immersion, daily experiencing its vast colourful tapestry of diversity. One of its key yearly...

Miles Davis Quintet | It Never Entered My Mind!

In 1955, Bob Weinstock found himself in a tough spot. He was about to lose his most revered recording artist, trumpeter Miles Davis. Weinstock was head of Prestige Records, the...

Gloria’s Step~Bill Evans Trio

One of the most important qualities you seek in a Jazz record is the interplay between the musicians, a kind if musical intimacy that survived the transition from the live visual...

Ola Onabulé | New Video + USA & European Tour Dates 2017

Make a note of these three (3) key USA events in your Diary: Plus European as well… 1)  Ola will appear in the US for three shows in Atlanta, Washington and New York at the...

Thelonious Monk Festival – New York, June 1 – 4

Monk. The single word conjures up images of the impassioned expression of this great American art form we call “jazz.” This June, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a majestic...

What’s New, by Helen Merrill

If you were a jazz singer in the 50s, regardless of your color and gender chances were your manager and producer would have pushed you into releasing a pop album. The returns on a...