When Brad Mehldau starts a song by Lennon & McCartney during one of his sets, a sigh of recognition goes through the room. During the American pianist’s improvisations on the music of the Beatles, you never cease to be amazed by the timeless beauty of ‘And I Love Her’, ‘Blackbird’ and ‘Here, There and Everywhere’. […]
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Louis Armstrong paved the way
Fifty years ago, the American trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1901 – 1971), founder of improvised jazz, died. Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926 – 1991) said about his predecessor: “You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.” The general public knows Armstrong for songs like ‘What A Wonderful World’ and ‘When […]