Giants', another Shorter composition, closes the album with a hard-bop anthem that keeps the energy high and steady throughout. While Blakey typically dominates with his high-energy drumming, here he ...

Pianist Bobby Timmons's Soul Time is an early soul-jazz classic. Recorded for Riverside over two days in August 1960 while Timmons was a member of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, the album's ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...

This archival album highlights a session by the trumpeter’s sextet from May 1958, a year before the recording of ‘Kind of ...

Poison drummer Rikki Rockett has looked back on his band’s classic album Open Up And ... The issue came down to the album’s cover art, which featured a wild, tribal-like figure with a long ...

Could our traditional alcohols be less damaging to the environment, and to our health? Mridula Ramesh offers some answers, in Part 2 of a Trade-Offs special.

Washington has a strong interest in jazz history; he's written liner notes for and/or helped prepare classic jazz re-releases by Art Blakey and Count Basie ... tandem of bassist Peter Washington and ...

Tin Pan Alley/American Songbook is as far removed from contemporary cinema as Mickey Mouse from Hannibal Lector. In the 1920s ...

By comparison, the recent sets by two former members of Roxy Music — guitarist Phil Manzanera’s 11-CD “50 Years of Music” and singer Bryan Ferry‘s 5-CD, two-vinyl album “Retrospective ...

The classic rock band released its first self-titled album, “The Doobie Brothers,” in 1971, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020. “We are so fortunate to have your ...