John Lennon was hailed as a god, but really, he was more than a little flawed. As such, there was one guitarist who walked ...

This extended analysis discusses the celebratory release of the Turtle Records story, a clamshell box set containing a fifty page, 17,000 word booklet written by John McLaughlin biographer Colin ...

The George Duke Band: The Complete 1970s Epic Albums Collection compiles the six albums that keyboardist, bandleader, composer, arranger and producer George Duke released on Epic Records between 1977 ...

THIS high-octane, in-your-face double CD leaves no doubt where Davis was headed as he pushed the limits of improvisation mixed with a pulsating, funky bottom -- and no doubt further disappointing jazz ...

Joni Mitchell‘s vault will get an even deeper dig this fall with the release of a 6-CD boxed set that will bring together about a hundred previously unreleased recordings from the fruitful late ’70s ...

Common critical consensus has free jazz reaching the end of its ‘glory years’ in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To be sure, the genre would never again be so closely implicated with social upheaval: ...

Few local bands reach audiences beyond their garages, much less listeners on different continents. But members of one hometown jazz group, DAPELE, can truthfully brag about something not many others ...

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by multiple ...

The Louisiana State Museum and Friends of the Cabildo will present two screenings of seven short films shot at the 1970 Jazz Fest on Thursday, April 17 at 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Old U.S. Mint, ...