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( 2022-10-10 update: the Black Lion recordings are now available on streaming platforms. I have also added the late Frank Kimbrough's t...

Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall 1938 is an iconic record. It has been in print since 1950, and it offers a great snapshot of Swing at hi...

There are records that are not so good, but still hold pleasant surprises. Some are even memorable for just one tiny moment of glory. O...

(This is a digest of the more detailed account of the 48º Heineken Jazzaldia, the annual summer jazz festival in Donostia/San Sebastián, Sp...

Apologies to my readers in English. Daily chronicles of the concerts at Jazzaldia are proving hard enough for me to contemplate translating ...

© Fernando Ortiz de Urbina The succession of free gigs around the Kursaal auditorium make the first day of Jazzaldia a whole differe...

Alchemy is a live album by Dire Straits, possibly the band that made the most money in the crazy Eighties, when British pop/rock seem...