There is much that is tragic about Tadd Dameron's story. The composer, arranger and pianist fell prey to the heroin epidemic that gripped New York's jazz world in the 1940s and 1950s. He did jail time ...

Sahib Shihab isn't as well known today as most other storied baritone saxophonists like Gerry Mulligan, Pepper Adams, Serge Chaloff and Harry Carney. As I recall from my not-yet-transcribed interview ...

When jazz records give a glimpse of the recording process, it's usually a short snippet—a sonic haiku that encapsulates the session, like Miles Davis imperiously ordering pianist Red Garland, "Block ...

Musician Sahib Shihab begins his day playing flute in his apartment and taking a long walk through the inner city of Copenhagen featuring light and shadow, architecture, the people of Copenhagen and ...

Sig M. Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer ) (pub. OUP) Beaux-Arts Brass Quintet BBQ BBQ 003 T.10 1. Schubert: Nacht und Traüme, D.827 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)/Gerald Moore ...

Leaving America in the 1950s and ‘60s, many of the musicians were happy to be in a city where they “no longer needed to figure out where the back door of the club was for a quick getaway in case ...