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Tony Haynes’ recent death at 83 is a loss on so many levels – a loss to family, friends and colleagues but also to the diverse musical communities of East London whom he served with such passion. Haynes’ achievements deserve [...]
Pianist, composer, improviser and educator Keith Tippett died in 2020 aged 72. A fearless musician whose career took him from a secondary modern school in Bristol’s Southmead to the Royal Albert Hall to Top Of The Pops, around the world [...]
Sven Klang’s Combo (aka Sven Klangs kvintett, 1976) is one of the most revealing and satisfying movies about jazz you are likely to see. Set in small-town Sweden in the late 1950s, it dramatises the seductive and perplexing intensity of jazz through the eyes and ears of the oddly [...]
There are too many lines, and not enough circles, in life. Graphs, timelines, narrative arcs, they’re everywhere. A beginning and an end, with a compelling and dramatic series of ups and downs in between. Is that how real life is? [...]
Kai Hoffman, East Kent’s answer to George Wein, runs a great little jazz festival in Herne Bay which took place over this past weekend. I hopped across from Deal and caught much of Sunday’s music which was taking place at [...]
It’s the 1970s and, looking straight at the camera, Michael Parkinson proclaims: “My first guest is most simply described as the best jazz pianist in the world.” When I was a kid in the seventies, there were only two jazz [...]
Less of a traditional biography and more of a slice-of-life portrait of a self-described ‘Road Dog’, Inside Scofield is an intimate and personal glimpse into what makes the man tick, and continue ticking, as we follow him tour with his [...]
The documentary “Hargrove – The man, his trumpet, and the music that kept him alive” was premiered at the Tribeca Festival in NYC in June, In anticipation of the film’s London premiere, (Barbican Cinema 2, 6 November, 17.30 part of [...]
