‘Night Dreamer’: Wayne Shorter’s Blue Note Debut
“I knew that for my first album for Blue Note, I had to say something substantial,” Wayne Shorter confessed to jazz writer Nat Hentoff in...
‘Promenade with Duke’: Michel Petrucciani’s Tribute To Duke Ellington
A few months after the release of his Blue Note album Promenade with Duke in April 1993, French pianist Michel Petrucciani told an audience in...
“When the entire crowd is singing it back at me, it’s such a glorious feeling”: The Waterboys classic Mike Scott wrote to prove how easy it was to write songs
A song whose key line its writer Mike Scott says “floated into my mind as if by magic”, it's still The Waterboys’ signature track and...
The Great American Soulbook: An Awe-Inspiring Collection Of Songs
The Great American Soulbook? That’s hard to define exactly, but what we can say is: Great songs need melodies you can remember and lyrics that...
‘Fever To Tell’: Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Genre-Defying Debut Album
Of all the bands that emerged from the beer-soaked basements of New York City’s music scene at the turn of the 21st Century, Yeah Yeah...
The Duke Of Ellington: The Renaissance Man Of Jazz
Music publishers are not generally noted for their eloquence or their feelings towards the art that they represent, but Irving Mills had this to say...