Take The "A" Train

An album of jazz compositions performed by the Berlin-based Ekkehard Wölk Trio, Pictures in Sounds is played like a collection of short sto...

The birth of  Bethlehem Records is one of those rather inexplicable moments in the history of jazz. Its founder, Gus Wildi, wasn't p...

Dizzy Gillespie Quintet live at the Berlin Philharmonie November 1980 Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), James Moody (tenor sax, flute), Ed...

Chris Marker in Telluride, 1987. Courtesy of Tom Luddy. “ Until midnight music is a job, until four o’clock it’s a pleasure, and afte...

Ornette Coleman A level-headed if largely unfavorable reaction to Ornette Coleman's Something Else!!!!  LP, penned by fellow mus...

The Oracle: The Ron Mathewson Tapes Vol. 4 by The Alan Cohen Big Band

Duke Ellington and Willis Conover In the wee hours of April 21, 1946, Duke Ellington who was visiting Washington DC for a series of co...

Duke Ellington behind the scene of NBC's What Is Jazz? (1958) episode#1 [Source: GettyImages] David Meeker, the author of Jazz in...

Created by scratching the emulsion and painting on raw film, the fantastically joyous short  Surprise Boogie (1956) is an homage to the ...

David Meeker, the author of world's most comprehensive jazz and film encyclopedia (regularly updated and available online at the web...