In the swinging Addis Ababa of 1973, Mulatu Astatke played a joint concert at the fashionable Hilton hotel with American jazz legend Duke Ellington before an audience including Emperor Haile…
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‘It didn’t adhere to any of the rules’: the fascinating history of free jazz | Documentary films
When Miles Davis first heard the music of Eric Dolphy, a key figure in the free jazz movement, he described it as “ridiculous”, “sad” and just plain “bad”. Upon encountering…
Everything about the World’s oldest instrument: The Drums
Over the past seven thousand years and above, the entire mankind civilization has witnessed drastic changes. From pre-historic times to the modern-age civilization, humans have embraced the changes with open…
Fuzz Was The Future: How a happy accident sparked the rock revolution of the 60s | Guitar.com
Last month, I explained how a ride in my dad’s truck with Marty Robbins’ 1959 Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs as the soundtrack, stoked my passion for music, and how to…
Virtuoso Keyboardist Jamie Saft to Play Jazz in the Woods Benefit
Jamie Saft sits at a Yamaha organ in his studio in Alna on Saturday, Aug. 21. Saft, a piano virtuoso, has performed with legends of jazz, rock, and creative music…