The legend goes like this: In 1930, jazz drummer Lionel Hampton was performing a gig at the NBC studios. In those days, and for a long time to come, the sound that identified NBC was three notes ...

Now, Justin Belew is not your ordinary musician. He plays instruments that you may consider “weird” or “highly unique”. Whether you call these instruments “weird” or “unique” you can’t deny Belew’s ...

To survive in the jungle of jazz, a performer must be different. Not many years ago, a jazzman could accomplish this by simply playing faster or higher or crazier than the rest, or by having a “dirty” ...