January 2024

Songs can come from anywhere. The distinguished English lawyer Fred Weatherly wrote an estimated 3,000 lyrics during a colorful life. An acquaintance of Charles Dickens...

Recorded at the end of 1963, The Kicker was intended to be Bobby Hutcherson’s debut for Blue Note Records. Instead, it ended up gathering dust...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest and most influential composers in the history of Western music. He composed over 600 works for all...

Trying to recall where you first heard the quintessential electric blues riff that opens “Dust My Broom” is difficult. It may have been the early...