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Picture by  Jaime Massieu , October 2014 One year has already gone by since Cifu left us . He was the dean of Spanish jazz commentators,...

THE THAD JONES/MEL LEWIS ORCHESTRA All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard (2-CD + 87-page booklet; Reson...

Sinatra at The Sands —  all pictures (except record covers) by John Dominis/Getty Images “It was probably the most exciting engagement I ...

It's been seven months since my last post, far too much, even for what is, in the end, a vanity project. I'm afraid I cannot promis...

BB King by Naiel Ibarrola BB King has died, and it feels like the end of an era. There are artists who seem to have been "always ...

Being one of the most spoken languages in the world, both in terms of people and geography, Spanish has a bibliography about jazz that woul...

(For Ira Gitler. ) The central position of hard bop in what is widely considered as the mainstream of jazz is an interesting phenomenon...