Two musicians lope onto the Milton Court stage carrying bottles. Without any spoken introductions they settle down in front of some electronic devices and make music for an almost unbroken 90-minute set. What followed was a superbly engaging performance, and [...]
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 [...]
Eddie Sauter’s LP-length, seven-part suite Focus was completed and recorded in 1961 by a studio orchestra (built around the Beaux-Arts String Quartet) with strings, harp, percussion and improvisations by tenor saxophonist Stan Getz (1927-91). This extraordinary recording is one of [...]
Michael Gibbs (b. 1937) is one of the world’s great jazz composer/arrangers, who came to prominence in the late 1960s London jazz scene. Over the past five decades he has taught and inspired countless musicians, forging creative bonds with artists [...]
