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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
This particular album contains Dave Brubeck’s impressions of a trip to Japan in the spring of 1964, and the music is just about as pointless and pretentious as anything he has ever recorded. Giving ...
The guitarist brought his trio featuring Bill Stewart and Vicente Archer to London for a jazz-focused set ahead of a brunch interview session with the UK's John Etheridge Scofield has said “I think ...
Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook with Horace silver on piano at the Birdhouse in Chicago in December 1960. Photo by Laird Scott Junior Cook (1934-1992) occupies a paradoxical space, simultaneously one of ...
When Anthony Braxton first started to make a cultural impression around half a century ago accusations of not swinging were aimed at his music. Passing time and the always dubious benefit of hindsight ...
Yet another jazz dynasty may be upon us as Bill Evans’ grandson releases a recital of Evans compositions. Evans On Evans (Shamus Records) features Bill Evans pieces reinterpreted by the 16-year-old ...
It’s common to associate early jazz with what might be considered low life and immorality, or something more than vaguely disreputable, despite efforts to sanitise it as a means of raising its status ...
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 ...
This is one of the most approachable, impressionistic and mellifluous releases in the Discus catalogue, which is not to suggest that it lacks focus or drama, albeit mostly of a subtle kind. The ...
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