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The avant-garde has won the battle for jazz history, the critic Phil Freeman observed recently. The 1960s, it’s agreed, saw the loud stirrings of a new approach to jazz. Though disturbing to some at the time, its proponents, such as [...]
South Africa has become a reliable source of emergent jazz talent in the last few years. Blue Note records’ fabled roster now includes artists such as saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane and pianist Nduduzo Makhathini. UK-based players like Shabaka Hutchings have sought [...]
Early Jazz: A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929, by Fumi Tomita. (SUNY Press, 232pp. Book review by Andy Hamilton) Fumi Tomita teaches jazz at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was active as a bass player in the [...]
I suppose there must have been other moments in life when I felt as giddily happy as seeing Sonny Rollins dive head first into a heroic opening solo on “Falling in Love with Love” at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in [...]
“When we think of ‘jazz’, we’re thinking of music that was, from its beginnings, a radical act of resistance against some of the most brutal and dangerous parts of American life.” Chris Searle quotes these words of US pianist Cory [...]
