1959 was a banner year for jazz, but no album captured the public's attention like Dave Brubeck's Time Out. "Take Five," the surprise radio hit from Time Out, would enter the record books as the first..
Ben Sidran has been a major force in the modern day history of jazz and rock and roll having played keyboards with or produced such artists as Steve Miller, Mose Allison, Blue Mitchell, Diana Ross, Bo..
Charlie Byrd (1925 - 1999) is best remembered for the work he did with Stan Getz, and for his work with the Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel, as The Great Guiars. The significance of those two associalat..
Recorded at the end of a tumultuous decade (August 1969), Miles Davis Bitches Brewreflected the chaos and beauty of a society stretched (and stressed) to its breaking point. This genre-bending, barrie..
"He can read my mind and I can read his" - Miles Davis, on Gil Evans
SKETCHES OF SPAIN was the third collaboration (after MILES AHEAD, 1957, and PORGY AND BESS, 1958) between Miles Davis and Gil Evan..