A film which has picked up THIRTEEN different awards at film festivals, and which has very strong jazz connections is on release on digital platforms from today 5 April 2021. I have just reviewed it for The Arts Desk
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The truth is that I can’t do without Herbie Hancock’s entire discography. In bringing this list down to just ten recordings some very specific parameters were called for. So I’ve focussed on Herbie Hancock’s electric music of the 1970s, and [...]
The fourteenth of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), features David S Ware getting ready for take-off. I bought this LP at a memorably powerful gig in Manchester by the quartet. The band blew us all away. They hadn’t more [...]
There is a petition currently under way, seeking to put an end to the fixed penalty fine of EUR150 which is increasingly being levied on bassists travelling on trains in France with their instruments, perhaps part of a broader trend [...]
Saxophonist Binker Golding became known on the jazz scene through his Binker & Moses collaboration with drummer Moses Boyd which was deservedly feted as one of the best groups of the new London wave. He has always had an interest [...]
A new organisation has been set up to address racial inequality in the music industry and create opportunities for Black musicians and professionals. It may seem counter-intuitive to learn that Jazz, a music of black origins, has a lack of [...]
