There is so much great music happening in our club, night after night. We didn't want that all to get lost in the wind. Four short years ago I had the pleasure of attending and putting pen to paper ...

Record Store Day, which started in 2007, is a biannual event designed to promote independent record stores. Every Record Store Day drop features limited-edition vinyl releases in practically every ...

Nestled under the tree canopy of downtown Sacramento, Delta Breeze Records is the janky little used record store for the heads who collect classic rock, soul, modern funk and disco, and jazz. While ...

Modern jazz is reaching the point of dilemma. In its approach toward concert music, it tends to wander from the regular beat of four-to-the-bar, but that beat is the pulse of jazz, and when it fades ...

Founded in 1969, Black Jazz Records was formed as an alternative to earlier jazz, with a roster comprised solely of African American artists and a focus on political and spiritual-influenced material.

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the ...

When Papa Jazz Record Shoppe first opened in 1979, eight tracks and 78 rpm records made up the bulk of sales for the Five Points institution. Cassette tapes were years away from being the predominant ...

Listening to an amazing new package from Mosaic Records, “Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions,” brings to mind a familiar image from science fiction movies: Picture, if you will, a land beyond ...

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