Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock is among the best and most influential jazz-funk albums in jazz history. Featuring classic tracks like Chameleon and Watermelon Man, join us for a dive into the classic recording. Herbie Hancock has been one of the most important pianists and keyboard stylists for sixty years, and this does not take into …
Hank Mobley’s Soul Station is one of the definitive albums of the hard bop era, but compared to contemporaries Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, the tenor saxophonist is often overlooked. The American jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley is often unfairly overlooked when discussing the history of the tenor saxophone in jazz. He arrived in New York …
Trumpet player and jazz singer Chet Baker is one of the all-time greats of the West Coast sound and his 1954 debut vocal album Chet Baker Sings remains a classic jazz record to this day. Read on to learn more about the great musician and his acclaimed album of jazz standards, as heard by jazz …
ECM Jan Garbarek has what is probably one of the most readily identifiable saxophone sounds in jazz. Originally influenced by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp, Garbarek very quickly moved away from what he began to perceive as the restrictions in free jazz and instead focussed on sound production, melody, structured compositions and rhythm. …