Andy Thomas

LISTS How Double Bassist Ron Carter Permanently Altered the DNA of Jazz By Andy Thomas · June 08, 2026 Photos by Pete Coco and Fortuna Sung The most recorded double bassist in jazz history, Ron Carter has appeared on more than 2,200 recordings over six decades—including more than 60 albums under his own name—spanning post-bop, avant-garde, and modal jazz to fusion, jazz-funk, and classical.

LISTS Genius of Dub: Mad Professor’s Guide to Ariwa Sounds By Andy Thomas · May 27, 2026 Following in the sonically experimental path of his great heroes Lee “Scratch” Perry and King Tubby, the UK’s Neil Fraser, aka Mad Professor, is a leading figure in the second wave of dub.

With the musical advancements and single-mindedness of Miles Davis, it’s tempting to think that this most restless of musicians stood ahead and apart from other trumpeters, isolated in some way by his creative genius and mercurial personality. Similarly, apart from appearing on Cannonball Adderley’s “Somethin’ Else”, his absence from Blue Note during its golden era, might suggest a disconnect from the label he joined in 1952 for its Modern Jazz series.