A look into the story behind Keith Jarrett and the fateful piano concert captured for 'The Köln Concert', one of the most celebrated jazz piano records.

By KIRSTEN BOLTON FOR ARTSPRING Dave Brubeck’s game-changing 1959 album Time Out is an American masterpiece of “west coast cool jazz” that resonates to this day. The odd time signatures, […] ...

The four parts are titled “Acknowledgment”, “Resolution”, “Pursuance”, and “Psalm”. Time Out album finds Dave Brubeck’s classic quartet, featuring Paul Desmond on alto sax, experimenting with a range ...

Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck has abandoned his quartet. After 16 years spent in demonstrating that jazz can be for the mind as well as the emotions, Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) decided to cut ...

When I met lifelong musician Red Young on board Delbert McClinton’s Sandy Beaches Cruise, I knew I had to interview him. He’s ...

toadsplace.com. Amy Helm Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook The singer/songwriter (and daughter of The Band drummer Levon Helm) has a new album out, “Silver City.” ...

The most admired, desirable and attractive people and things, those that are universally deemed cool, have been part of the ...

If you are the kind of person who judges amplifiers on a power-per-pound basis, Esoteric’s range-topping F-01 integrated is ...

Oklahoma-born trumpeter Cherry was 29 when he recorded this groundbreaking album ... cover. The music still swings but the squealing, eerie high notes that emanate from McLean’s horn from time ...

Its status as one of the genre’s most important instruments is undisputed; even the most cursory glance at the list of musicians hailed as the best jazz saxophonists of all time is essentially a ...