Come September, Bill Evans will have been dead for 21 years. A considerable time -- yet in that span, no jazz pianist has come close to replacing him in the popular imagination. Evans is still very ...

It is commonplace today for a reissued CD to feature a handful of alternate takes culled from the master tapes of the original session. Frequently filled with false starts, clumsy solos, and ...

Miles Davis needed a painter in sound, one who could successfully bring the impressionistic sounds and modal harmonies of Debussy and Ravel into a jazz environment and do so in a way that was organic ...