Today, 29 April 2021 would have been the 99th birthday of Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron (“Toots”) Thielemans (1922-2016) and plans for the centenary next year are already taking shape in his native Belgium. A dedicated website, toots100.be was launched today. [...]
Tomorrow’s Warriors are marking their 30th Birthday with live events. Today’s press release (29 April 2021) lists the events: Tomorrow’s Warriors co-founders say: Gary Crosby OBE: “What a journey it’s been the past 30 years. What was a leap of [...]
Not footprints, but Sound Prints: this US quintet led by Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas follows a tradition established by Wayne Shorter’s classic 60s albums. They celebrated Shorter’s 80th birthday with their first album in 2013. Shorter tunes (some written [...]
That Which Has Remained…That Which Will Emerge… is the latest album from Austrian-American composer, improvisor and percussionist Lukas Ligeti. Son of the late Gyorgy Ligeti, Lukas’ similarly unflinching search at the fringes of musical invention have to date led him [...]
