As Nigel Price’s helpfully informative sleeve notes say, each track on this album is some kind of tribute to a past and/or current jazz master. Aside from the quality of the playing, however, what makes this CD notable is the [...]
One of the defining features of the recent EFG London Jazz Festival and this year’s BBC Proms was the impressively broad and inclusive range of composers and performers from right across the musical spectrum. Gone, hopefully forever, are the days [...]
“Mingus” was recorded in 1960 and includes three extra tracks, forty minutes of music, which were recorded at the same time as the “Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus” album. One, the 1933 Arlen/ Koehler classic “Stormy Weather”, features the same [...]
