Chigusa, Japan’s longest-running jazz café since 1933, is set to become a museum and live music venue where it will exhibit its massive collection of V-discs and rare vinyl records.
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Jeff Novotny and his JAZZPRJKT take the risky jazz experimentation route on "Cygnus X-1" and come through unscathed.
It took Rachel Lyons, the archivist for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, some 20 odd years to discover these tapes of historic performances.
The performances will come from his time living in France and includes films from Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk Quartet, Miles Davis Quintet, and Nina Simone.
To celebrate 100 years of Charlie Parker, Craft Records is releasing a four-LP deluxe box set that will kick off year-long celebrations for the renowned musician.
Residing at the crossroads of soulful jazz and glamorous disco is the party sound of acid jazz. It made its waves in the '80s, riding on the coattails of music nobody had heard of, and it all began in London.
Spiritual jazz, a genre born in the '60s and closely tied to that times' political, social, and cultural climate is experiencing a resurgence of sorts, is it again reflecting the moment we live in? We exam the genre's roots and its ever expanding horizons.
Is progressive rock truly progressive, or is it just newfangled jazz with a fake mustache? Prog. rock is coming closer to jazz than ever before. Is the music progressing or returning to its roots?
Mike Casey launches a unique, interactive, album-as-an-app experience for his acclaimed 2020 'Law of Attraction' album which allows listeners to build the perfect mix to learn, play, or sing-along to.
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With 'Backyard Astronomy' Chris Forte shows what a varied and inspired guitar album can sound like.
What is Krautrock? And how has this weird era of eclectic music from West Germany in the '60s and '70s come to influence so much in music still to this day? Let's take a look.
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With his third album, 'Leap of Faith', Arnab Sengupta, shows all the hidden treasures that can lie in so-called "sophisticated pop."
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Photographer and video artist Oan Kim, successfully develops his many musical interests on his latest project, 'Oan Kim & the Dirty Jazz.'
Hurricane Ida has created havoc in New Orleans and one of the major casualties of the storm was The Karnofsky Tailor Shop and Residence, a historic jazz landmark, and Louis Armstrong's "second home."
The five-CD box set will be the first such set for the legendary pianist and will feature over 60 tracks that spotlight Evans’ unique perspective on the piano - who's widely considered one of the most influential artists in the history of Jazz.
Since its indefinite postponement, the festival has decided to release, for free, over 50 live performances from iconic artists like Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, James Brown, and more.
At the moment, there is a plethora of jazz artists who are bringing something new, reviving previous forms in the right way, or just crossing borders that garner more attention - with some of them on the verge of attaining wider acclaim.
For our first Musicphiles podcast of 2018 we have our very first guest on! Aspiring drummer/artist Jaron Lamar Davis stops by to talk about his upcoming eclectic alternative electric jazz hip-hop album called My View Through the Lense of Music and the process of creating his first album. As well as giving us a trained musician's point of view on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly and the increase of jazz, blues, and funk influences in hip-hop and 'urban' music in general. Then he joins us in listing our most anticipated albums (confirmed and rumored) of 2018.
Marijuana was not widely known in the 1920’s, but for jazz musicians, it was part of their lifestyle. Marijuana sustained their energy in a way alcohol couldn't, and provoked experimental improvisation that captivated audiences...
Waiting Around, the sophomore album from John Stammers that took 6 years to make is finally here and it may just mark the resurrection of the sub-genre 'jazzy folk' that has roots all the way back to the 50's.
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After a break of some twenty years, Stevie Cornell comes back to music with some enjoyable, subtle roots pop.
South by Southwest wrapped a couple weeks ago and while it used to be known primarily as a music festival, the film festival program this year featured a long list of music documentaries with two in particular standing out from the rest.
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Perry and his album, 'Maximize', go quite a bit towards restoring the good name of smooth jazz as a genre.
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On 'SE3' Spencer Elliott and his trio show that finger picking acoustic guitar isn't all pastoral and quiet.
