Three great saxophonists helped ease jazz out of the initially liberating but ultimately confining conventions of bebop. John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman’s contributions to this new-found, or reinvented, freedom are recognised as monumental, their influence acknowledged far and wide. The [...]
Paul Zauner, founder and artistic director of the Inntöne Festival, having moved the dates of the main festival to July a couple of years ago, has added a smaller three-day festival devoted to the keyboard. The combinations ranged from solo [...]
As jazz strove to retain its relevance in the 1960’s, and whether through desire or record company insistence, artists began to release music with a more ‘commercial’ musical angle. One thinks of Ellington’s ‘Mary Poppins’ suite and Basie’s albums of [...]
The idea for a spiritual jazz reimagining of St. Francis of Assisi’s mystical prayer The Canticle of the Sun was sparked when award-winning clarinettist and composer Arun Ghosh was browsing a second-hand bookshop near London’s Tottenham Court Road and came [...]
Alison Bentley is looking forward to going back to Suedtirol/Alto Adige… “Jazz keeps the continent together,” says this year’s festival, with modern jazz and improvised music from all over Europe. In each of the last 10 festivals, a country or [...]
Anteloper is the duo of trumpeter Jaimie Branch and drummer Jason Nazary; both also make extensive use of electronics. The name Anteloper is a combination of antelope and interloper and, according to Branch, indicates a being that is shunned and [...]
The Brian Molley Quartet are so assured that from the very start of their latest CD one feels in safe hands: whatever they do, wherever they go, the journey is going to be a comfortable one. And as the title suggests, Intercontinental [...]
“A truly great listening room for jazz.” Bassist John J Williamson, originally from Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast, and pianist David Ferris, who grew up in Cornwall are now involved in the running of one of London’s cornerstone weekly [...]
Enja Records has announced that the label’s co-founder Matthias Winckelmann passed away yesterday, 19 June 2022: “We are very sad: Matthias Winckelmann is no longer with us (April 7, 1941 – June 19, 2022), RIPThanks for your energy and your [...]
