Joe McPhee, renowned jazz and free jazz saxophonist and trumpeter (and frequent visitor to Cafe Oto), has gathered around him a dynamic trio of younger musicians under the tag MONSTER. At the grand young age of 85, McPhee has drawn [...]
Sebastian writes: I had the very good luck to occupy the chair next to Wally Houser in the saxophone section of the Barnes Big Band (formerly Stan Reynolds Orchestra), and to get to know him over most of two decades. [...]
The following is an interview with arranger and bandleader Mark Masters. His ensemble’s new albums, Sam Rivers 100 and Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!, pay homage to two singular tenor saxophonists and composers: Sam Rivers and Billy Harper. Links to Masters’ [...]
On the final night of Joe McPhee’s sell-out residency at Cafe Oto, prior to a rip-roaring duo set with John Edwards, his recently published autobiography was presented in a relaxed, in-conversation with eminent music writer, Richard Williams. The in-conversation is [...]
Ute Lemper brings her “extraordinarily fresh take on familiar songs” by Kurt Weill to London this Friday… Have you ever heard ‘Mack the Knife’? Well, of course you have. The swing classic, written in 1928 by Kurt Weill and Bertolt [...]
It’s often said that Siggi Loch – and his successor Andreas Brandis – regard the roster of their ACT Music label as an extended family, and the number of artists recording primarily or exclusively for the label seems to bear [...]
