The 42nd of Jon Turney’s weekly selections features a memorably different saxophone sound. Charlie Haden’s Quartet West project produced a series of albums that were love letters to LA, and its mid-century culture. This, the second, remains a favourite. In [...]
Matthew Stevens should fall off his bike more often. It’s not that I’m wishing any harm should come to the Canadian guitarist, who recently celebrated becoming a US citizen, but rather it’s a comment on the quality of his playing [...]
Well, when time travel is invented, this gig at the Penthouse, Seattle, in 1965 will be near the top of my bucket list. The soulful blues and meditative devotion of the studio album recorded the year before have evolved into [...]
Chris Maddock is a young saxophonist who graduated from the jazz course at Birmingham Conservatoire, and is now based in London. The quartet he leads is a Hammond Organ quartet which has been playing around London since 2018. It features Liam [...]
Carl Hyde, who has been an official photographer at Ronnie Scott’s since 2014, is today (18 October) launching a new book of photos, Jazz Noir, consisting of “a selection of images that for me personally have stuck in my mind [...]
1: Blind Lemon Jefferson 1926–29 2: Frank Stokes 1927–29 3: Blind Blake 1926–29 4: Big Bill Broonzy 1927–32 5: Mississippi Sheiks 1930 (Vol. 1) 6: Lonnie Johnson (Vol. 1) 1926–28 ALSO THE BOOK: Blues from the Avon Delta: The Matchbox [...]
