Author: Sunil Sampat
A fascinating aspect of collecting jazz recordings over several years, is the appearance of “new” releases of recordings made a long time ago. For some reason these are often referred to as “lost” recordings. In ...
One of the great joys of listening to jazz is in the constant discovery of individual style and subtle nuances in the expressions of the artist. The saxophone being as closely associated with jazz, as ...
A few months ago a friend called and asked if we could have an evening of listening to jazz on vinyl. Always game for a listening session, I gladly accepted and we had a wonderful ...
New York-based jazz vocalist Sachal Vasandani speaks about singing jazz, and performing with his idol
“Man! If you gotta ask, you’ll never know!” Louis Armstrong once opined in response to the age old question, “What is Jazz?” This is as apt an answer as you are likely to get if ...
Of all the types of popular music played and heard in the last seventy or eighty years, jazz has utilised more musical instruments than any other genre.
