Birdland jazz club: the House of Gone Sounds
12 December 1959: Michael Frayn visits the New York club on its tenth anniversary and discovers ‘the city is pretty well shaking with jazz’ Birdland is ten years old this […]
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The 10 best jazz albums of 2024
A Mercury prize winner, a host of fresh collaborations and a posthumous release of a much-lauded live performance are all among the year’s standouts • More on the best music […]
Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths
Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black African prime […]
Music classes resume at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
The Birmingham music hall and arts nonprofit has restarted Saturday Jazz Greats, its longtime tuition-free music education program. The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, housed in the historic Carver Theatre, started […]
‘Leave your ego at the door’: from Thriller to Sinatra, Quincy Jones collaborators tell the stories behind his songs
Whether hashing out Beat It over the phone or jamming with Snoop Dogg, artists who worked alongside Jones recall his skill, kindness and lust for life The 89-year-old musician and […]
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny on crafting hits with Joni Mitchell and David Bowie: ‘I had to keep telling myself it was real’
The virtuoso jazz guitarist has worked with a string of legends, winning 20 Grammys in the process. He speaks on his beginnings as a jazz trumpeter, and still striving to […]
Quincy Jones and Frank Sinatra: the audacious partnership that rocketed them to another planet
Jones was behind many inflection points in American music, but it all began with a brotherhood with Ol’ Blue Eyes In 1958 Quincy Jones was working in Paris when he […]
Quincy Jones – a life in pictures
The composer, arranger and producer who worked with stars from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson has died aged 91. We look back at his career highs Continue reading… Powered by […]
‘Celebrated again’: Portrait of German jazz-age pioneers lost after Nazi takeover return to Berlin
Jewish Museum in Berlin buys painting of Weintraubs Syncopators, who played the soundtrack to the Weimar cabaret They could play seven instruments each, critics hailed them as the best jazz […]
Mark Winkler: The Rules Don’t Apply review – crisp, timeless joie de vivre
(Cafe Pacific)The LA singer-songwriter and co hit the sweet spot once more on this elegant set of originals and covers, which include a surprising Beatles number Over a long career […]