Don Cherry was a pioneer. After his work with Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s and 60s, he went on to play with John Coltrane and the New York Contemporary Five as well as recording two outstanding albums on Blue [...]
New York native Catherine Russell performed in London for the first time at Dean Street Pizza Express on the final night of this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival, bringing to a close more than fifty gigs in their three London [...]
Sometime during the late 1940s, jazz hipperati first clocked Gerry Mulligan as a fledging composer and arranger slyly inserting bebop flavouring into charts for the Elliot Lawrence, Claude Thornhill and Gene Krupa big bands. In 1949, his reputation increased through [...]
There is certainly a great deal of fine music on the international jazz scene – but once in a while a performance is so overwhelmingly wonderful that you know it will stay in the mind forever. And this was the [...]
Well, here it is…although, in a way, it isn’t. If seeing a tribute to Leonard Cohen released on Blue Note suggested one of those Hal Willner compilations that shed a fresh light on Monk, Mingus as well as Kurt Weill [...]
As LJF celebrated its thirtieth birthday with a sold-out show of electronic jazz (or ‘jazz-dance’) at the 6000-capacity venue Printworks on Saturday (REVIEWED HERE), another jazz milestone was being celebrated in more intimate fashion in Clerkenwell: the 20th anniversary of [...]
The Adam Mickiewicz Institute has announced a second series of seven episodes of its acclaimed Rebel Spirits podcasts highlighting the strength and variety of Polish jazz. The first episode of the new series will launch on Wednesday 24 November and [...]
Named after Ostara, the Germanic goddess of the spring equinox, “The Ostara Project” showcases the strength and creativity of Canadian women in jazz. The “supergroup” is spearheaded by award-winning jazz musicians bassist Jodi Proznick and pianist Amanda Tosoff. While the [...]
The Norwegian Daniel Herskedal may be the most Nordic of all the fine players Scandinavian jazz has brought us in recent decades. The sound of his two instruments – his bass trumpet somehow inherently elegiac, his tuba punchier but still [...]
“Mothers In Jazz” is a new series, started by vocalist Nicky Schrire. The initiative aims to create an online resource for working jazz musicians with children, those contemplating parenthood, and jazz industry figures who work with and hire musicians who [...]
