The late Peter Niklas Wilson was a sober, insightful commentator who wrote superb musical biographies of Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler. His superb short biography of the prophet of the New Thing has now appeared in an excellent [...]
John W. Bubbles was one of the great song-and-dance entertainers, the tap dancer who inspired Fred Astaire. He was a contemporary of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, and his vaudeville partnership Buck and Bubbles was popular for more than thirty [...]
The first post-Covid festival returned to Bergamo’s main venues, now beautifully restored – most notably, the magnificent Teatro Donizetti, with its frescoed ceiling. The first gig there was the Fred Hersch Trio with Drew Gress (bass) and Joey Baron (drums). [...]
This fascinating and beautifully-produced book addresses a neglected issue in jazz studies: the nature of the images which have plentifully illustrated writing on the medium. Alan John Ainsworth considers the work of American jazz photographers through the first sixty years [...]
