This Cafe Oto evening was, foremost, a 60th birthday celebration for Andy Moor, best known as the uncompromising, maverick guitarist in the Dutch, post-punk band The Ex with whom he has been a solid anchor for over 30 years. The [...]
In a far-off time when giants strode the earth, tenor saxophonists had to choose which gods to follow: Coleman Hawkins (rich, solid and confident) versus Lester Young (airy, floating and lyrical) until Charlie ‘Yardbird’ Parker, an alto player, synthesised their [...]
Fans of Bill Evans are hardly short of existing material, what with reissues, compilations and “newly discovered rarities” adding to an already bulging discography – not to mention that Evans obsessively revisited a handful of tunes over and over, year [...]
