The Concord Music Group inaugurated their celebration of the 40th anniversary of Norman Granz's Pablo Records with the releases of John Coltrane: Afro Blue Impressions (Pablo, 1963/2013) and Sarah ...
I discovered jazz and Jack Kerouac at roughly the same time in my teens back in the early 1970s, when his seminal novel On The Road (Viking, 1957) hooked me into the bohemian world of jazz clubs, ...
Zoot Sims wasn’t much different 20 years later than he was in 1955, but what is a little unusual here is his pianist Dave McKenna, who later became famous as the solo jazz pianist with the most ...