BBC FOUR TV has just broadcast (7 May 2023) a 105-minute show with the title “Spring Soul and Jazz from Cheltenham”. This was a Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2023 Concert recorded at the Big Top, Montpellier Gardens on 27 April 2023. [...]
The American Songbook has long been mined by artists from across the spectrum. Four years after Rickie Lee Jones (aka The Duchess of Cool) came to fame in 1979 with her sassy jazz-inflected Chuck E’s In Love, Linda Ronstadt and [...]
Contemporary jazz often incorporates elements from other black music genres, e.g. hip hop, drum and bass and Afrobeat, but reggae and ska are less common. In this joyful album, however, Samuel Blaser pays tribute to fellow trombonist Don Drummond (1934-1969), [...]
Between 1989 and 1995, Concord Records produced 42 solo piano recitals, all recorded in Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley in California. Each recital featured a different jazz pianist; the series eventually consisted of 42 CDs. The entire series is now available on streaming services…so LJN [...]
This very welcome LP reissue of a canonical classic of British jazz returns the title to vinyl for the first time since its release on the Tracey family’s Steam Records in 1976. Recorded on 4 March (Wiki says 14th) 1965 [...]
