Dec 23, 2025

The Café Central, a jazz club located just off Madrid’s Puerta del Sol — Spain’s "Kilometer Zero" — has been going out of business for more than forty years.

And now, it finally might.

Opened in the early 1980s during Spain’s cultural reopening after Franco’s dictatorship, Café Central became a rare kind...

Dec 8, 2025

Guitarist, bassist, composer Phil Upchurch died on November 23, and with his passing the music world lost one of its true “musician’s musicians.” Upchurch played on more than a thousand recordings  — from Michael Jackson, Donny Hathaway, Chaka Khan, Curtis Mayfield, and George Benson to Jimmy Reed, the Staples...