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, […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At that time, bebop-influenced jazz had been marginalized ... looking to stay in the game – began recording instrumental covers of hit tunes of the day. This coincided with the advent of easy ...

In the '60s, booking music acts in the South was a dicey affair due to horrific Jim Crow-era laws discriminating against ...