When one is making a pilgrimage to Joshua Tree in California—even by Zoom call—you must be careful about protecting your eyes from the blinding sunlight and keep your cap on to cover your brain. Listening to the music of Lara Somogyi from her album...
The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward spread the sounds that we know as the blues and jazz across the country.
John Hadfield's sound is instantly recognizable, due in part to his unique drum kit, which reflects the musics he has studied and with which he continues to engage. Hadfield's formal degrees are in jazz and Western classical music, but he also studied frame drumming and world percussion extensively with...
As a young woman growing up in Canada, Joni Mitchell was fond of American popular music and bought records whenever she could afford them. She would sometimes swap painting jobs for jazz albums. Among her favorite jazz artists were Duke Ellington and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross.
The story of jazz's birth is firmly rooted in the soil of New Orleans, but its first great migration north was on the waters of the Mississippi River. The steamer boats that worked the Big Muddy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not merely...
The Gudics Twins are a case of 1 plus 1 equaling 3. The Hungary-based duo, consisting of twin brothers Martin on electric bass and Marcell on drums, displays tons of technical proficiency and lock-step synchronization. When you combine this with their writing of muscular, up-tempo grooves, then the "...
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