Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

After the great success of "Elevator Music" you cannot miss the new Christmas Playlist of Ambient Jazz Songs! The elevator ...

From the opening notes of Instrumentals, it rapidly becomes clear that the (entirely vocal-free) Nels Cline Singers are out to make some noise. Guitarist Nels Cline, who has eagerly straddled the ...

The early days of jazz were not always harmonious. Converted dance orchestras often sounded like unbalanced acoustic junkyards; a single violin, cornet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, drums, banjo, and ...

Reworking his past material as jazz instrumentals, Bryan Ferry's The Jazz Age is a self-consciously 1920s collection, openly meant to evoke Louis Armstrong, early Count Basie, and the initial mass ...

All Turned On! Motown Instrumentals 1960-1972 is exactly what it says it is. It could be a regular trawl through Motown’s back pages but – obviously – isn’t. The unreleased cuts are supplemented by ...