“What’s He Doing in my own World” can be an exemplory case of a music that, despite its popularly approved meaning, actually represents a concealed plan involving a not veiled assault on discographers and related experts. These valiant souls keep on in their seek out the facts, a difficult objective …

The name Russell Smith abounding throughout music history like wildflowers with an Appalachian highway, it really is no great shock to find several performers with this name whose accomplishments in classic jazz will be the stuff of legend. Never to become confused having a journeyman trumpeter whose discography may be …

The jazz avant-garde has produced a large number of notable improvisers (and in addition, since improvisation is arguably the music’s defining element) but relatively few great composers. Henry Threadgill is certainly a member of this exclusive club. Along with his fellow Chicagoans Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams, he’s perhaps …

b. Connecticut, USA. Playing piano from his early youth, Barnhart became a specialist musician at age 14, using his revenue to help purchase formal tuition. Even though some of this function was as home pianist at an area cafe, he also performed in rings, like the Galvanized Jazz Music group, …

The Billy Moore with half songwriting credit for “God Progresses water,” a creepy spiritual made famous by the fantastic Blind Willie Johnson, isn’t the same bluesman, also called William Moore who recorded some 16 songs for Paramount in the later ’20s. The period of time may be appropriate — the …