Jazz

The posthumously celebrated boogie-woogie pianist Buck Hammer was legendary, and the reason he was legendary is that he had four hands. When his debut and…

1968 was a great year in music, to be sure, great enough that in addition to all of the uncontested masterpieces, it coughed up its…

James “Iggy Pop” Osterberg is one of a handful of figures who need zero introduction to Dangerous Minds’ readers. Not just a godfather of punk…

Around the time that he became an authentic jazz superstar in the mid-1960s, Charles Mingus became obsessed about avoiding exploitation at the hands of “distributors…

It’s safe to say that if you reach the age of 66 and you find yourself playing a piano that is on fire, either your…

Jazzville in Percussion Anyone who has so much as glanced at an issue of MAD magazine from its heyday three or four decades ago will…

After several decades of jazz music mainly serving as something to dance to–as Wikipedia drily notes, “the association of jazz with sex is early and…

There were three main ways I learned about Spider-Man as a child. The first was his wordless appearances on The Electric Company. Then as a…

Samla Mammas Manna was a prog rock band that was active during the 1970s and later that seems to have been Sweden’s closest approximation to…

In his later years, when Muddy Waters started making the money he was long overdue, he’d call up his friend John Lee Hooker and the…