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I’m not interested in the new for the sake of newness” writes Jeremy Pelt in the liner notes for Woven. It is an interesting ...
This year's festival, blessed with sunshine, included Katia Melua, Lulu, Kokoroko, Lisa Stansfield, Billy Cobham, Daniel ...
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Joanna Eden, Bill Frisell, Sakoto Fujii, Macy Gray, ...
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Cyrus Chestnut, Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, Sylvie ...
Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Andy Shepherd, Michael Arbenz, Norma Winstone, Joe ...
Trumpeter and singer Muoneké has become a favourite at this venue in Taunton’s Paul Street: as ever he charmed the audience ...
Born in Paris and raised in Scotland, Rebecca Vasmant has become an unofficial ambassador for contemporary jazz. Drawing ...
Michael Doyle’s title is striking but also misleading. Ostensibly about the adventures (and misadventures) of Artie Shaw’s ...
Conspicuously absent from the reference books, the intriguingly named trumpeter and cornetist Webster Young (1932-2003), was ...
Yale academic and musician Brian Kane posits that when we hear a jazz standard we don't hear just that rendition but its double in a tune, chord sequence or previous performance retained in the head ...
I first met Gale Madden at a record shop in Bellingham, Washington in the late 80s. As we stood digging a CD of vintage Roy ...
This was originally released in 1958 via Prestige and recorded three days after a Columbia session for the Miles Davis album ...