SYLVIA BROOKS Signature: When last we met Brooks, she had our vote for femme fatale of the year (any year). This time around, she’s toned down her look on the front cover, not disguising her maturity but not reveling in it either. Inside the jacket, you get the lady in red looking as dangerous as ever surrounding herself with the crème of SoCal jazz and displaying a world wiseness without a Marlena Dietrich world weariness. It’s ain’t an easy trick to pull off music as cinema but she does it again here. Well done throughout.
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Why Social Media is Helping Gen Z Rediscover Jazz
Jazz is over a century old, yet it feels astonishingly at home in one of the fastest moving cultural spaces today: social media. Swipe through TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts, and before long you are liable to run into a pianist improvising over the top of...
