John Belushi. Chevy Chase. Dan Aykroyd. Gilda Radner. George Carlin. Andy Kaufman. Billy Crystal. Many of the greatest comedians to ever live, all of whom have made indelible impressions on audiences over the l
Whilst it serves as a departure from previous records stylistically, featuring less improvisation and jazz-influenced compositions, the group’s trademark sound lends itself well to the cinematic score and is an interesting and important addition to Metheny’s discography. Song X Another co-lead effor...
While Oscar Peterson paid instrumental tribute to Ellington, a Verve Records classic featuring the peerless voice ofElla Fitzgeraldbrought the best out of the accompanying words to some of his most brilliant compositions. Not only that, but the quality of the musicianship – featuring jazz greats su...
The Great Kat graduated with Honors from The Juilliard School and began performing, first as a Classical violin soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall as winner of the exclusive "Artists International Competition" and then soloing on violin extensively in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe. The Great Kat (...
Once the strike broke and musicians began to record again, the music grew to become the dominant genre in jazz by the late 1940s and has influenced generations of musicians since. This video is a live take of one of Monk’s most famous compositions, “‘Round Midnight.” ...
The Jazz Agewas another interesting project for me. It's sometimes nice in your career to do something left field and surprise yourself. My voice is in the background of some of the [new] things because musically most of the pieces started with a piano demo, which I would have done nor...
Many of the most striking jazz-adjacent records in recent years have carried a DIY-punk ethos or drifting, almost New Age ambiance. Binker Golding can do both—but the London-based tenor saxophonist and composer can also sound polished enough for your trophy mantle, plush enough for a boutiq...
marking the end of twenty consecutive cycles of school/summer/school/summer etc. Suddenly, I was all too aware that my life was now FREE JAZZ — structure be damned. Exacerbating this anxiety was the small matter that I had graduated with a masters degree in journalism, and the universe was...
was the first to bring all that music from the Holiness church — the beat, the hand clapping, the shouting — out into the band business.” You wrote that gospel, unlike jazz and blues, remained “culturally confined.” What was borrowed from gospel by popular musicians of Hampton’s era...
of Rhythmintroduced a style that incorporated narrative rapping and grooving, laid-back melodies, which riffed on the nascent Native Tongues. Tribe doubled down on sophomore albumThe Low End Theory, taking the title to heart, filling the album with heavy bass and mutating their jazz influences ...