Ethiopian jazz is a popular gateway for many aspiring jazz enthusiasts (often associated with pioneers like Mulatu Astatke and Getatchew Mekurya from its 1960s–’70s heyday), but London duo ZENA — producer, keyboardist and synth player Yohan Kebede and bassist/producer...

After the success of her breakthrough debut, Honey for Wounds, British-Nigerian singer-songwriter Ego Ella May is tackling the difficult second album with her new release, Good Intentions. Maybe it’s the self-deprecating Brit in her, but May is embracing for her flop...

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Illustrator David Stone Martin was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, creating over 400 album covers. With his signature hand-drawn calligraphic lines, DSM perfectly captured the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom.    ...

RIP David Edward Byrd Between 1968 to 1973, he created posters for Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Traffic, the Grateful Dead and many many more. His poster of the Jimi Hendrix Experience was voted #8 in the Top 25 Rock Posters by...

The hegemony of Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe in the circuit of rising youth bands in New York around the middle of the 1960s was consolidated at the end of 1969 with the launch of the LP “Cosa Nuestra”. The cover photograph, a Henri Wolfe original, recreates a...