Spike Lee has always known how to incorporate music into his films. Do the Right Thing used Public Enemy to perfection and Mo Better Blues…
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Spike Lee has always known how to incorporate music into his films. Do the Right Thing used Public Enemy to perfection and Mo Better Blues…
The iconic jazz drummer, Jimmy Cobb, has died from lung cancer at the age of 91. He is best known for his masterful contributions to…
On this day 116 years ago, the jazz piano icon Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller was born in New York City. Beginning his musical journey at the…
At the core of jazz is improvisation, or put another way, musical freedom. Through this is the philosophy that has always underpinned the style, traditions…
Legendary musical patriarch and icon of the New Orleans Jazz circle, Ellis Marsalis Jr., has died at age 85.
The pianist and educator was hospitalised…
Two game-changing geniuses changed the face of jazz in the 1940s and defined America’s greatest genre. Saxophonist Charlie Parker redefined the way it was played…
The mind-bending virtuosity and granite-like chordal work of McCoy Tyner influenced almost every pianist in jazz. His time in the legendary John Coltrane Quartet has…
When Julian Edwin Cannonball Adderley first arrived in New York City in the early ’50s, he was there to pursue higher education. Originally from Florida,…
April & The Drift have released a new track titled Autumn Rain and it is truly dreamy. April is a blues-jazz singer who composes her…
You may know Robby Krieger from The Doors, but he is back on his solo music run and set to release an album titled The…
On a frozen night in New York, 1967, one of jazz’s greatest trumpeters of all time didn’t own a trumpet. It was in the pawnshop,…
Neal Cassady is one of the most fascinating and mysterious figures in American history. An intellectual and a bigamist, a drug-taker and a spiritual visionary,…
A new jazz compilation is hitting shelves under the title Seven Wonders. A moment-in-time record harnessing the prowess of Australia’s best jazz artists, the compilation…
