Last week, on March 20, I took a day off from my show. I moderated a music panel at UCLA’s Fowler Museum with Quincy Jones and Kenny Burrell. Aaron Byrd sat in for me. He played something from an ...
2018 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the German jazz label MPS. To mark the occasion, the label's catalogue of over 400 albums has been released on download, and a vinyl and CD reissue ...
In the States, guitarist Baden Powell remains one of the least known bossa nova pioneers of the late 1950s and 1960s. Rather than play the smoothed-out, laid-back samba popularized by João Gilberto, ...