At the 2021 Grammys held on 14 March in LA, jazz and jazz-related winners included: Chick Corea (two), Maria Schneider (two), Kurt Elling/Danilo Perez, Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Jacob Collier and Robert Glasper. Best Jazz Vocal [...]
Californian lawyer-turned-musician Adrian Younge is a composer, recording engineer and producer who adores classic soul music. He composed the soundtracks for Black Dynamite, a 2009 American blaxploitation action comedy film, and the TV series Marvel’s Luke Cage (2016-18) – the [...]
Put the words “music” and “Ibiza” in the same sentence and many people will visualise either superstar DJs pumping out techno bangers to hordes of sweat-soaked clubbers or the sort of chill-out music that provides coffee shops with aural wallpaper. [...]
This 3-CD box set of unreleased recordings by the Kurt Edelhagen Jazz Orchestra made for the German Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) radio station in Cologne presents a fascinating snapshot of an important episode in the history of European jazz. The collection [...]
The eleventh of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), a memorable excursion into Afro-American history. Clifford Thornton, multi-instrumentalist, composer, radical intellectual, led the final release credited to the co-operative Jazz Composers’ Orchestra, and it’s a great one. The multiple African [...]
Canadian Lorne Lofsky (b.1954) is a name that guitarists of all persuasions, over the last four decades, have consistently held in awe for his extensive harmonic and melodic language which, at times, has his guitar sounding almost like a piano. [...]
Swedish guitarist Pål Nyberg is a standard-bearer for straight-no-chaser jazz guitar, a player who combines composed melody and improvisation so well that you don’t notice where one ends and the other begins. Marketed as ‘cool jazz’ in the press release [...]
