The early days of jazz were not always harmonious. Converted dance orchestras often sounded like unbalanced acoustic junkyards; a single violin, cornet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, drums, banjo, and ...

What do Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Neil Diamond have in common? Well, aside from being amongst the more important singer/songwriters of the past forty years, they've all recruited Michael Landau ...

Reworking his past material as jazz instrumentals, Bryan Ferry's The Jazz Age is a self-consciously 1920s collection, openly meant to evoke Louis Armstrong, early Count Basie, and the initial mass ...