Reviewed: BSDE 4TET | Donald Harrison | Paquito D’Rivera | Otis Spann
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by Peter Gamble
13h ago
BSDE 4TET: Live At Parma Jazz Frontiere (GleAM Records AM 7034) This group recorded its first album back in 2021 which received a positive response from the Italian critics, leading to personal accolades for leader Daniele Nasi, a saxophonist whose creative talents are displayed here, as he impresses on both tenor and soprano. The group […] The post Reviewed: BSDE 4TET | Donald Harrison | Paquito D’Rivera | Otis Spann appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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Reviewed: Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii & Ramón López | Kira Kira | The Jazzmen
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by Barry Witherden
2d ago
In a previous column I reviewed a couple of albums by Satoko Fujii, commented on the astonishing statistics of her output (over 100 albums as leader in 29 years, plus her work as a member of various co-operative groups) and speculated that more would be released before my review appeared. Here are two of them! […] The post Reviewed: Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii & Ramón López | Kira Kira | The Jazzmen appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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Obituary: Howard Riley
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by Matthew Wright
4d ago
“Only posterity will show whether Howard Riley is a European Cecil Taylor, an avant-garde John Lewis, a jazz Stockhausen or the Howard Riley” reported Martin Davidson after hearing the pianist at the Purcell Room with Barry Guy and Paul Lytton in 1972, and it’s with sadness that Riley’s death was announced on 8 February, at […] The post Obituary: Howard Riley appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies And The Jazz Commons
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by Andy Hamilton
5d ago
In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post-civil war reconstruction and early jazz. The term “brassroots democracy” is a synthesis of grassroots activism and New Orleans’ historic brass-band tradition, and Barson argues that jazz arose from the mass mobilisation of freed people during reconstruction during the […] The post Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies And The Jazz Commons appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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Paul Higgs’ Shades of Miles, East Grinstead
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by Jazz Journal
6d ago
Sporting a green trumpet à la Miles, Paul Higgs started his set with Milestones (the streamlined modal tune from 1958) and immediately followed it with the “old” Milestones (the complex, chord-heavy bebop tune from 1947), neatly encapsulating the changes in Miles Davis’s approach over that period. Paul showed how Miles took the standard Harmon trumpet […] The post Paul Higgs’ Shades of Miles, East Grinstead appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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Billy Cobham and Buena Vista among Cheltenham attractions
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by Mark Gilbert
1w ago
The full lineup for the 2025 Cheltenham Jazz Festival (30 April-5 May) has been announced as follows below. Aside from the main stage shows in the “Festival Village” at Montpellier Gardens, there will be an array of one-off performances, free events, group workshops, family-orientated shows and late-night jams. Across the town, other venues will be […] The post Billy Cobham and Buena Vista among Cheltenham attractions appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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Reviewed: Scarborough Jazz Festival 2024 on CD | Nel Begley | Emma Smith | Diane Roblin & Life Force | The Joymakers
Jazz Journal
by Brian Payne
1w ago
Various: Scarborough Jazz Festival 2024 This double CD was recorded at last year’s Scarborough Jazz Festival. CD1 runs to 71.45 minutes, opening with Al Morrison’s Blues Experience and their superb rendition of Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love. It’s followed by Family Band with Tom Rivieré’s composition, Life’s Work. Then Elaine Delmar sings Gershwin’s Embraceable You […] The post Reviewed: Scarborough Jazz Festival 2024 on CD | Nel Begley | Emma Smith | Diane Roblin & Life Force | The Joymakers appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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Stolen Trane-related saxophone prompts an online fundraiser
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by Mark Gilbert
1w ago
Andy Hamilton advises of a funding campaign to replace the historic saxophone stolen from Archbishop King of San Francisco on his doorstep a month ago. The campaign’s GoFundPage page says: “Four weeks ago, Archbishop King’s beloved Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone, which he has played for over 50 years, was stolen from his doorstep in […] The post Stolen Trane-related saxophone prompts an online fundraiser appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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Media ‘masking’ female under-representation in Grammys as research finds ‘pressing need’ for more women in jazz
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by Mark Gilbert
1w ago
The Grammy awards have been accused of under-representing women in nominations and awards and facilitating a female-positive smokescreen to hide the fact. “The Missing Voices Of Women In Music And Music News”, a report by Luba Kassova of Addy Kassova Audience Strategy, a London-based audience-research body, complains that women received only one in five Grammy […] The post Media ‘masking’ female under-representation in Grammys as research finds ‘pressing need’ for more women in jazz appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson | Annette Peacock | François Couturier, Dominic Pifarély | Duduka Da Fonseca Trio | David Ferris Septet | Phil Bancroft’s Beautiful Storm
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by Simon Adams
1w ago
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson: Forces Of Nature – Live At Slugs (Blue Note) On tour after his departure from John Coltrane’s classic quartet at the end of 1965, McCoy Tyner played a set at Slugs’ Saloon in New York City in April 1966 alongside tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Jack […] The post McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson | Annette Peacock | François Couturier, Dominic Pifarély | Duduka Da Fonseca Trio | David Ferris Septet | Phil Bancroft’s Beautiful Storm appeared first on Jazz Journal ..read more
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