In the latest of our series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, bassist Matt Ridley (*) writes about Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš: When I was approached to [...]
French pianist Gregory Ott’s “Parabole” (Jazzdor) is a modestly understated and deeply personal album. It offers a musical reinterpretation of Wim Wenders’ masterpiece, the 1988 film “Wings of Desire”. Ott has not reworked the original movie soundtrack, far from it. [...]
The 29th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) is a blast from Mike Gibbs, taking it back home. Anything Mike Gibbs had a hand in is worth listening to, but extra points for this one, 20 years ago, which [...]
“DEL. FEE. OH. You pronounce it Del-Fee-Oh.” This is how Delfeayo Marsalis enters the stage: with gentle sass and a light rebuke, politely chiding the announcer for not having yet learnt how to pronounce his name. The interaction seems innocuous enough, [...]
A jazz saxophonist playing Grateful Dead tunes? We’ve been here before – during the band’s life such illustrious hornmen as Charles Lloyd, Branford Marsalis and David Murray joined them on stage to help entertain America’s counter-cultural hordes. Murray went on [...]
Any release featuring South African alto saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi (1925-1983) is to be warmly welcomed. This is a reissue of a 1977 collaboration with the Paris-based Oklahoma-born tenor saxophonist Hal Singer (1919-2020) that has been unavailable for 40 years. Often [...]
