On May 9, 1978, Bill Evans was in the Netherlands to play on the Dutch TV program Music Gallery with

Yesterday, I posted my complete 2008 interview with Johnny Mandel (above). But what did his music sound like over the

Johnny Mandel, a elegant arranger, composer, conductor and bass trumpeter who began his career writing for big bands in the

In October 1960, Gil Evans took a large band into the Jazz Gallery, a New York club that had opened

After all these years, I’m still not exactly sure why Paul Desmond’s alto saxophone sounds so good. Part of the

Last week in The Wall Street Journal, I interviewed actor Shea Whigham for my „House Call“ column in the Mansion

The Fender Rhodes electric piano is like Aramis 900, Pierre Cardin’s Pour Monsieur or Paco Rabanne’s Pour Homme. The scents

Photo by Lauren Desberg, courtesy of the artist. Despite the pandemic performance freeze, vibraphonist Joel Ross has been able to

In 2019, I posted on YouTube clips of students working out on transcriptions by guitarist Barry Galbraith (go here). In