Mixing James Brown funk with his own soul jazz grooves, ‘Mr Shing-A-Ling’ found Lou Donaldson in the middle of a second creative burst for Blue Note.
Amid the great unrest of 1968, a teenage jazz fan brought pianist Thelonious Monk to Palo Alto to play a concert. This is the story of how it happened.
In 1964, Serge Gainsbourg released ‘Gainsbourg Percussions,’ an audacious Afro-Cuban jazz album with no precedent in French music.
‘Cookin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet’ was one of several albums that brought immortality to the trumpeter’s pioneering group.
