“Jazz is notorious for being a difficult musical genre to appreciate. Many people believe they’re supposed to like it and that knowing about jazz impresses others. Despite this, most people still find it difficult to follow. Jazz experts say the key to appreciating jazz is to focus on how different musicians play off one another’s […]
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In 1985, Miles Davis shocked the music world by moving from Columbia to Warner Bros. He immediately started working on an album called ‘Perfect Way’ after a tune by Scritti Politti, later renamed ‘Tutu’ by producer Tommy LiPuma. When ‘Tutu’ was released in 1986, it re-ignited Miles Davis’ career, crossing over into the rock and […]
DANIEL HARRIS WRITES … Who is responsible for the break up of a relationship, the person who finally gave up and walked out, or the other person? While Simon & Garfunkel started out as school chums performing together since their early teens, by the time of their Grammy winning final studio album, their philosophies on […]
Overview: What could this possibly have to do with a music web site? Guest contributor Ray Purchase explains: Monty Python once did a sketch about the difference between film and video – yes, really they did, and it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M The joke was that in 1970s television, scenes in the studio were shot on video, […]
First official release for this excellent-quality recording of the Kind of Blue-era Davis Quintet, with Wynton Kelly on piano added to Coltrane, Chambers and Cobb. Read more of this Miles Davis review here
A limited edition(1000 only), deluxe four CD set in digi-pack format, re-mastered with extensive liner notes. These live recordings feature the band in a transitional stage from the darlings of the London Underground scene of the late sixties to the jazz rock outfit they became. The line up is MIKE RATLEDGE, ROBERT WYATT, HUGH HOPPER, […]
With the abundance of music at a listener’s fingertips, Ivan Hewett asks if too much choice is making it harder for people to enjoy it Please click HERE to continue
We are told …. This 1963 date is titled for Dexter Gordon’s living in self-imposed Parisian exile and recording there with two other expatriates and a French native. Along with Gordon, pianist Bud Powell and Kenny “Klook” Clarke were living in the City of Lights and were joined by the brilliant French bassman Pierre Michelot. […]
Seventeen years after Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette has shaken off the title of pop’s queen of angst. Her new album, Havoc and Bright Lights, is a thing of joy, writes Mark Sutherland. “I remember touring America in a van and I’d be fielding all these calls,” Alanis Morissette says. “‘They want you on the […]
Wes Phillips (Stereophile magazine) ….. Even though she calls her new band, 4×4, a “small” group, it’s a big band—almost too big for the stage of the Knitting Factory on the night of October 11, 2000, as it makes its first American appearance. Bley’s piano is so far to stage left, she has to lean […]
The Savage-Solveig label devotes itself to the archive of previously unreleased live material by the dazzling British sax star of the 50s and 60s, Edward Brian “Tubby” Hayes. This session finds the bop virtuoso at Nottingham’s Dancing Slipper club (a favourite haunt of a jazz-loving teenager who would become Kenneth Clarke MP) on 12 […]
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Q: You were once managed by Mr. Ronnie Scott. Of course in the early days he must have had an influence on you. However, might it be that traces of his influence might be observed in this, your latest recording. And if so, would you like to elaborate? Ronnie taught me that it was possible […]
Originally published 2013 Nick Coleman writes: This Spain and Colorado-based singer-songwriter’s wavering ethereal voice hangs in the air like cigar smoke and is curiously reminiscent of the theremin. It’s the perfect vehicle for carrying her timeless songs, which mix Tin Pan Alley jauntiness with New Orleans swing, then throws in a dash of ….. Continues […]
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This superb live recording, taken from an FM radio broadcast of The Band playing at the Mandel Hall duringtheir first re-union tour following the group’s split in 1976, subsequent to their Last Waltz concert – wasnothing short of a roaring success despite the absence of Robbie Robertson. The ‘other four’ however were hungry to get […]
They tell us….. People, Hell & Angels is a new album of twelve never before released Jimi Hendrix studio recordings. This special album showcases the legendary guitarist working outside of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience trio. Beginning in 1968, Jimi Hendrix grew restless, eager to develop new material with old friends and new ensembles. Outside […]
MARTYNA KIELEK / Senior Music Editor It is not possible to talk about Polish jazz (which I intend to make one of my regular topics here, among other types of jazz and occasionally blues music) without bringing up the composer and pianist Krzysztof Komeda. His enormous talent (displayed during a time in communist-governed Poland when […]
Oldawg: Nearly 30 years after its release I find It’s Hard to be very representative (unfortunately) of what is happening in the world today. In particular John’s Dangerous, Eminence Front and Cooks County. How do you feel about It’s Hard today? P.T.: It’s Hard is the only record the Who made where the individual members […]
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