Throughout its history, jazz has constantly evolved, developing from and reacting against its earlier incarnations. The mid-1940s saw bebop reinvent jazz as an artist's genre, distinct from the swing ...
Jazz fans will argue forever over the best version of The Jazz Messengers. Was it the group with Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan that made A Night in Tunisia in 1960? The 1954 edition with Horace Silver, ...
MOANIN' AT MIDNIGHT: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf. By James Segrest and Mark Hoffman. Pantheon, 398 pp. $26.95. More than a decade in the making, Moanin' at Midnight (named after an early hit) ...
On this very day in the year 1950, the incomparable country music pioneer Hank Williams recorded the legendary song, “Moanin’ The Blues”. The song was recorded during a session at Castle Studio in ...
Revisit perhaps the most iconic Jazz Messengers album this week as we mark what would have been Art Blakey's 100th birthday. The legendary drummer fronted many iconic Messengers line-ups, but their ...
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