Lasting Impression Brandon Sanders spent many hours as a child visiting his grandmother’s jazz club in Kansas City where she ...
It’s now several moons since I’ve been able to beguile a Sunday lunchtime basking in the sounds of jazz at its best. This of course is not the same as saying I have not spent several Sunday lunchtimes ...
Of course, Shorter’s mould-breaking early sixties albums – Speak No Evil, Juju, Adam’s Apple and Nightdreamer – were always going to be a tough act to follow, but nothing he has produced since then, ...
Afro Baroque As in my last batch of selections, eclecticism is a keyword with these albums. Afro Baroque is one of those happenstance sessions, a consequence of a chance meeting between the ...
Forty years ago Michael Tucker heard the 'perfect rebuttal of a recent, patronising description of ECM as "the Habitat ...
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert hailed one of the key modern jazz guitar records, a singular session replete with chromatic ...
Jazz And Bossa Nova Lalo Schifrin (1932–2025) composed some of the most memorable film and television music of our age. A ...
Thirty years ago the NY tenor man, peer to Berg, Brecker, Mintzer et al, talked about his journey through Miles Davis, Elvin ...
Forty years ago Mark Gilbert heard in Henderson's splitting, jiving and slipping of notes a still contemporary saxophone ...
Forty years ago Simon Adams found that Ra's leopard-skin frock didn't disguise the sloppiness of his musical presentation ...
December 2025, including Brandon Sanders, Woody Shaw, Gene Shelby, Wes Smith and Dave Stryker // Editor's pick: Dave Stryker ...
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