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Duke Ellington (live TV broadcast control room) photo by Gordon Parks, 1960. (c) Gordon Parks Foundation. "Parks was seventeen when, in...

Nat Hentoff Original Liner Notes: Ahmad Jamal 's The Legendary Okeh & Epic Sessions ,1951-55 A few years ago Miles Davis, A...

Photo © Daniel Sheehan. Source . L et's start with an enlightening fact: do you know what ahmad jamal means? Obviously it is an Ara...

A shot from Duke Ellington in Isfahan   Duke Ellington in Isfahan is a short film that the author of this blog (Ehsan Khoshbakht) made in ...

Chick Corea. Photo source . RIP Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (1941-2021) The July 1992 German tour of Chick Corea and Friend...

RIP Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (1941-2021) July 1992. Chick Corea plays a series of concerts in Germany with his quartet fe...

The Invisible Child, an album of unreleased and live recordings by Italian jazz drummer Andrea Marcelli arrived at the right moment: liste...

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...