Buda Musique's mind-expanding Ethiopiques series—23 discs strong and counting—is a treasure trove of strange and wonderful music, none more so than that contained on Negus Of Ethiopian Sax, which is ...

Although Ambrose Akinmusire’s latest Blue Note effort, the imagined savior is far easier to paint, is primarily an instrumental release (save for a few songs with guest vocalists), the ...

In 1925, a remarkable jazz tradition was launched. On January 14 at New York, the no. 1 singer in all of American music, Bessie Smith, teamed up with a dynamic young trumpeter from New Orleans, Louis ...

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1983, Sébastien Pittet is a musician, teacher and composer. He started playing bass guitar in a rock band at the age of 14 and a few years later he started his studies ...

This collection of tracks from the Ethiopian bandleader shows the power of his unique fusion. Save this story Save this story Ethio jazz. That's what Mulatu Astatke called his style of music when he ...