For a geezer of my vintage the great and most fruitful UK jazz explosion occurred in the late 60s-early 70s, fuelled by South African expats and musicians from the West Country and then, somewhat in ...
When I interviewed guitarist Steve Khan in 2011 (the interview published in Jazz Journal in September and October 2018), I asked him about Anthony... The 22nd Scarborough Jazz Festival takes place ...
A crisp, swinging, well-executed programme of mainstream/modern, ‘Cleopatra’s Needle’ is a splendid advertisement for British jazz. Ronnie Ross plays some of the most inventive baritone sax I have ...
Nicole Mitchell is a renowned flautist and former chair of the AACM. Ballaké Sissoko an innovative kora player from Mali. Both are esteemed composers and both have defied convention in their ...
Portrait Of A Romantic; On Hubbard’s Hill; Not Love Perhaps; Levitation; Undernote (23.18) – The Wanderer; Roundelay; The Wizzard’s Song (19.39) John Surman (bcl/r/ss/bar/syn). Recorded Oslo, Norway, ...
The ascent of saxophonist Emma Rawicz has been meteoric. Born in rural north Devon in 2002, as a child she studied classical violin and didn’t take up saxophone until her mid-teens, but by 2022, aged ...
Despite Beatlemania and the Swinging Sixties fizzing all around it, the London jazz scene at that time was full of young bands determinedly getting themselves together. Group Sounds Five was one of ...
Miles Davis arrived in Paris for a tour at the end of November 1957 and whilst there, working on the music for Louis Malle’s film Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud, played at L’Olympia and at the Club St ...
The 19th Scarborough Jazz Festival includes Alan Barnes, Dave Newton, Paul Booth's Bansangu and a Jazz Messengers tribute ...
In many ways, the 1960s were the making of British jazz, the bands of Mike Westbrook, Graham Collier and Mike Gibbs, to name but a few, matching the best the Americans could offer. Among those fine ...
Four very different vocalists feature in this set of reviews, the first being Savina Yannatou, from Greece. She shares honours on Watersong with Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui and the Primavera en ...
Conspicuously absent from the reference books, the intriguingly named trumpeter and cornetist Webster Young (1932-2003), was born in South Carolina and raised by his mother in Washington, D.C. His ...
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