Two years ago, Dhafer Youssef stunned the world with “Street of Minarets”, an album on which jazz icons such as Herbie Hancock and Marcus Miller joined the Tunisian
How a cynical rock song from 1975 became the perfect soundtrack for a phenomenon that didn’t even exist yet—and what it tells us about American obsession, then and
On 8 September 2024, during the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Paris, Amadou & Mariam performed Serge Gainsbourg’s “Je suis venu te dire que je m’en
The best musical discoveries are often the ones you don’t see coming. Midway through a binge of Netflix’s Danish crime thriller ‘Legenden’ (international: “The Asset”), a track pierced
When the pitch-black, claustrophobic sounds of the HBO series “Chernobyl” seeped into my living room, I immediately knew that someone with a rare talent for translating emotional devastation
The People Who Can’t Handle Jazz: What a Hollywood Movie Taught Me About Ambiguity, Improvisation, and Why Some Minds Need All the Answers; A longread about the psychological
There exists a photograph from 1958 that every serious student of African music should know: a young Fela Anikulapo Kuti, just off the boat in Liverpool, trumpet case
Somewhere in a former bakery in Düsseldorf, in the summer of 1994, something remarkable happened. Four young art students, Thomas Klein, Andreas Reihse, Stefan Schneider, and Detlef Weinrich,
Anthony Jackson, the visionary who reinvented modern bass playing, passed away on October 19, 2025. The confirmation came from guitarist Al Di Meola, who wrote on social media:
