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From 1953, when it was set up, to 1964, when it was acquired by ABC, Riverside Records rivalled Blue Note and Prestige as one of the leading independent jazz labels based in New York City. The founders of all three labels were jazz fans who operated on slim margins and became producers partly because they enjoyed it but also to keep the payroll down.
By Chris May
Joerg Steineck is a German filmmaker who has made both documentary and fictional films. His latest project Inside Scofield is, as the title suggests, a look at guitar icon John Scofield's career and life on (and off) the road as a touring jazz musician.
By Mike Jacobs
The beauty of Frank Sinatra in his 70-year career is that there's never anything that becomes boring or stale. You could listen to the early recordings at Columbia, the very soft and tender crooner kind of recordings, and then you might want something different. So you jump to the '60s, when he was working with Basie.
By Nicholas F. Mondello
To me, the abyss is everything. It's a matrix, it's a generating principle, and it's the mother. In this type of music—all forms of improvised music—if you're trying to get through whatever puzzle that you have in front of you, you have to deal with creative void state.
By Seton Hawkins
We don’t care about genre. It’s just about music essentially. We have something to say and we’re going to say it, and at no point are we trying to fit into any genre boxes.
By Ian Patterson
