When they first performed together in New York in the late 1960’s, Chick Corea and Gary Burton thought that playing as a duo would never work out, and they went their se…
Liz McComb’s The Spirit of New Orleans represents a return to her roots of sorts. Now living in France, McComb started as a singer in a small Pentacostal church i…
Perhaps because Pete Malinverni lives in the midst of one of the world’s great cities and earns his living there as a professional musician, he was struck by the concept of…
South African a capella vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, though most often singing in Zulu, has developed a sound that many listeners nonetheless recognize instantly, s…
Roots & Grooves preserves one of those live performances where everyone on stage is "on." Maceo Parker was decidedly inspired by the forceful back-up of the WDR Big …