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 ...
Certainly a beautiful Steinway grand piano and a first-class sound balance helps tremendously but even allowing for these exceptional aids Julian Joseph proves to be a very impressive pianist on this ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Without wishing to get embroiled in semantics, there must be a stage at which music can no longer be used as a description of certain sounds. To take my stand, I would say that lengthy passages of ...
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, ...
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 ...
With this album, Weather Report restore interest and credibility. Past efforts have been guilty of all manner of vapid redundancy, but this has rich content, imagination, fire and passion. A shift of ...
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