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“I originally started the festival because I found there were many similarities, to me, between the beautiful east Kent coast and the classic film Jazz on a Summer’s Day at the Newport Jazz Festival,” says Herne Bay Festival Director Kai [...]
Zev Feldman’s Jazz Detective record label keeps cracking cold cases, and with some great results. This time it’s a slice of classic Sun Ra recorded in 1976 and ’77 at Joe Segal’s Jazz Showcase in Chicago. At this point in [...]
Los Angeles-based, platinum-awarded jazz singer, songwriter and lyricist Mark Winkler’s new album The Rules Don’t Apply is released in the UK on 28 June, and he is performing at Pizza Express Soho on 9 July to launch it, in the [...]
The album Smokin’ At the Half Note, which featured Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio recorded live in 1965 at the eponymous New York club, was a 24 karat classic. It’s dizzying to realise that Kelly’s trio, with Paul [...]
The brainchild of Zev Feldman (see INTERVIEW link below), Jazz Detective is perhaps the best moniker for a record label ever (*). Dedicated to tracking down rare and lost tapes, Jazz Detective has brought to our ears outstanding music by [...]
