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It was the summer of 1958 when Miles Davis arrived at the great New York temple of sound, Columbia Records’s 30th Street Studios. He hadn’t decided whether to take part in recording the first of three ...

The highlight is Golson’s “Stablemates” – in fact, two versions, including an eight-minute take with fantastic blowing by Golson and Lee Morgan. I have hundreds of jazz CDs. I'm a huge fan of bebop, ...

Chuck Berry died on Saturday at the age of 90. The legendary guitarist and rock and roll pioneer was gearing up to release CHUCK, his first studio album in 38 years (the record is still due to some ...

The 10 soundtracks presented on this 4-CD collection range from the 1958 short Two Men and a Wardrobe to Polanski’s black and white masterpiece, Knife in the Water. Moody horns, cool-jazz blues and ...

In 1958, Chuck Berry played Rhode Island’s Newport Jazz Festival. He was a rare rock & roll act alongside acts like Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Louis Armstrong and Dinah Washington. The festival was ...

You’ll be hearing a concert from our April Jazz Legend Art Blakey leading the Jazz Messengers at the Olympia Theatre in Paris in 1958.

Despite an original publication date of almost 15 years ago, Litweiler's exposition of the history, methods, intentions, and personalities associated with free jazz from its inception remains a useful ...

Powerful musical moments are undercut by exasperating blandness in this rerelease of Bert Stern’s film of the 1958 Newport jazz festival This rerelease of Bert Stern’s filmed record of the 1958 ...