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Stolen Trane-related saxophone prompts an online fundraiser

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 San Francisco. This cherished instrument was a cornerstone of his musical ministry, and also carried profound historical significance - the mouthpiece is a gift from Alice Coltrane and previously used by John Coltrane. "The Archbishop Reverend Franzo...

Media ‘masking’ female under-representation in Grammys as research finds ‘pressing need’ for more women in jazz

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...

Reviewed: McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson | Annette Peacock | François Couturier, Dominic Pifarély | Duduka Da Fonseca Trio | David Ferris Septet |...

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...

Reviewed: Veronika Harcsa, Anastasia Razvalyaeva, Bálint Bolcsó | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Glen Manby, John Gibbon Trio | Sue McCreeth | Joe Baione

Veronika Harcsa, Anastasia Razvalyaeva, Bálint Bolcsó: Schubert Now! (BMC Records, BMC CD3298) Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain respectability by association but latterly in the hope that something different or revelatory will emerge. An album of 11 Schubert lieder is performed here by a trio whose classical music component is...

Reviewed: Dave Holland & Lionel Loueke | Nick Costley-White | Marton Juhasz | Dave Stryker

Dave Holland & Lionel Loueke: United (Edition EDN1249) Guitarist Lionel Loueke hails from Benin, West Africa and his roots are...

Reviewed: Jimmy Lunceford | Sidney Bechet

Jimmie Lunceford: Rhythm Is Our Business (Retrospective RTS 4425) Altoist and multi-instrumentalist Jimmie Lunceford drilled his band throughout the 30s...

Reviewed: Tom Smith | Ben Wendel | Angelica Sanchez, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez | Kyle Shepherd Trio

Tom Smith: A Year In The Life (Fey Moose Records FMR001) Suddenly, a resurgence of interest in big bands is...

Reviewed: Rainer Brüninghaus | Kjetil Mulelid Trio | Amir ElSaffar, Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch

Rainer Brüninghaus: Freigeweht (ECM 589 2370) Reissued in ECM's audiophile Luminessence series of high-quality vinyl, this superbly recorded music from...

Reviewed: Louis Armstrong-Dave Brubeck | Miles Davis | B.B. King | Cliff Korman

Louis Armstrong-Dave Brubeck: The Real Ambassadors (Jazz Wax Records JWR 4640) When this 1961 LP was reviewed in Jazz Journal...

Reviewed: Phil Haynes’ Day Dream – Duke & Strays Live

Phil Haynes' Day Dream: Duke & Strays Live (Corner Store Jazz) The relationship, partnership and friendship of Duke Ellington and...

Reviewed: Chet Baker | Wes Montgomery & Cannonball Adderley | Charles Mingus

Chet Baker: Late Night Jazz (Elemental Music 73401LP) Recorded three months before his mysterious death in 1988, this handsomely packaged...

Reviewed: Karl Latham | Claire Martin | Guy Klucevsek, Volker Goetze Quartet | Gouldian Finch

Karl Latham: Living Standards II (Drop Zone Jazz Records DZJ121241001) This is the follow up to Latham’s 2016 collection of...

Reviewed: Steve Davis | Sullivan Fortner | Emily Remler | Matt Holborn | Richard Baratta

The homage is a main ingredient in jazz. Not a week seems to go by without the release of...
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Reviewed: Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian | Iancu Dumitrescu | Benjamin Lackner

Marilyn Crispell with Gary Peacock, Paul Motian: Amaryllis (ECM Records 6515177) This haunting album, reissued in ECM's...

Reviewed: Inge Weatherhead Breistein | Sigurd Hole | Spinifex | Alexi Tuomarila

Inge Weatherhead Breistein: Rust (Jazzland Recordings 3779671) Bergen-based saxophonist and composer Inge Weatherhead Breistein first came...

Reviewed: Bloodcog | Richard Davies | Yellowjackets | The New York Second

Bloodcog: Staged (whi music - whi020) There is an old saying here in the UK: “One’s...
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JJ 01/85: Buddy Rich And His Orchestra at Lewisham Festival

Forty years ago Pete Gamble found the Rich big band high on preci­sion and power but lacking in the solo department except for the leader, whose press rolls still seemed impossible to execute

JJ 01/85: Jan Garbarek Quartet at Brighton Polytechnic

Forty years ago Michael Tucker found that a performance by the Norwegian saxman's band with David Torn, Eberhard Weber and Michael DiPasqua dispelled the notion that ECM music is a one-mood affair

JJ 01/85: Abdullah Ibrahim at Shaw Theatre, London

Forty years ago Simon Adams saw the high priest of jazz contemplation play a 70-minute piano medley before before moving to a second set including tense and powerful vocals

JJ 01/85: Kenny Wheeler – Double, Double You

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert sought solid ground in the trumpeter's compositions and improvisations, meantime taking refuge in the powerful internal logic of Michael Brecker's solos

Reviewed: McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson | Annette Peacock | François Couturier, Dominic Pifarély | Duduka Da Fonseca Trio | David Ferris Septet |...

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 DeJohnette. Henderson was already a Blue Note stalwart while Tyner...

Reviewed: Veronika Harcsa, Anastasia Razvalyaeva, Bálint Bolcsó | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Glen Manby, John Gibbon Trio | Sue McCreeth | Joe Baione

Veronika Harcsa, Anastasia Razvalyaeva, Bálint Bolcsó: Schubert Now! (BMC Records, BMC CD3298) Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain respectability by association but latterly in the hope that something different or revelatory will emerge. An album of 11 Schubert lieder is performed here by a trio whose classical music component is embodied in a composer (Bolcsó) and a harpist (Razvalyaeva). Veronika...

New releases Dec ’24 – Jan ’25, T-Y

The Fury: Live In Brooklyn They say : A modern jazz supergroup makes its debut with a live album. The Fury is saxophonist Mark Turner, guitarist Lage...

New releases Dec ’24 – Jan ’25, P-S

Pablo Tarantino Quartet: Charnia They say : “Pablo Tarantino is a soulful and richly creative new composer/drummer who plays with sensitivity, precision, and depth. His debut album...

New releases Dec ’24 – Jan ’25, M-O

MacDonald, Doug: Santa Monica Session They say : The Prolific Jazz Guitarist Doug Macdonald Gives Five Standards And Three Originals A Strong Latin Feel On Santa Monica...

Stolen Trane-related saxophone prompts an online fundraiser

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...

Media ‘masking’ female under-representation in Grammys as research finds ‘pressing need’ for more women in jazz

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...
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Introducing the single In A Dream, publicist Rebecca tells us that its creator Rosie Frater-Taylor is “one of the most electrifying forces in contemporary British jazz”. She adds that “with her album Featherweight landing widespread critical acclaim, the multi-faceted singer, songwriter and musician releases a bold addition with Featherweight – Deluxe”. She continues: “Rosie is a virtuoso guitarist and vocalist of remarkable emotional depth . . . She seamlessly weaves rock, alt-pop, neo-soul, new-school jazz, and folk into her singular sound. Drawing inspiration from icons like Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, Kate Bush . . . Rosie’s music is a vibrant tapestry of influences.”

Publicist Mark says of Chicago’s Christopher Dammann Sextet that it breaks new ground with its debut album and shares that he is “so stoked” to announce its arrival. He continues: “Please have a listen to this stellar record, all at once familiar to fans of the deep history of Chicago’s rich improvised music scene, and also a refreshing expression of something new and very personal.”

Publicist Riyah tell us that for the London Jazz Festival 2024, NYJO has teamed up with “the legendary vocalist Cleveland Watkiss” to present Sun Ra Reimagined, 23 November at Milton Court. Riyah says it will bring a new dimension to Sun Ra’s “iconic” works.

Publicist Julie announces the return of Neil Cowley, the pianist who successfully combined what some viewed as quirky standup and self-consciously eccentric jazz trio some two decades ago. She says his reconvened trio have a magnificent new recording, Entity and became one of the fastest selling shows at the 2024 LJF. They tour in spring 2025, an event that sees Cowley “reunited with his ‘brothers’ and close musical allies, bassist Rex Horan and drummer Evan Jenkins”. She describes their reacquaintance as “a tearful, yet joyful reunion”.

Publicist Leah tells us that Parisian multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Cédric Hanriot has produced a“vital and ground-breaking new album” featuring “talented guests” such as Erik Truffaz and Soweto Kinch. Leah says the music on the album carries “echoes of Bill Evans, while other songs embrace hip-hop, funk, soul and electronica”. As a pianist, Hanriot is notable for his exciting mastery of a style developed by Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner half a century ago. Maybe the new ground is conceptual. Leah reports Hanriot’s inspirations for the album: “For some time now, quantum physics has been shedding scientific light on some of life’s mystical phenomena. My belief is that quantum physics and spirituality are not antagonistic in nature, but rather speak of the same thing, a synchronized tautology of sorts, thus it became a critical catalyst for this album. We are Energy, Music is Energy and Life is magic!”

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Caroline Davis: ‘I think it’s important to build an altar for people we’ve lost’

Milky smoke from an incense stick is pirouetting around a dozen porcelain cats and one bowl of dry-roasted peanuts. Alto saxophonist Caroline Davis lights a candle. Then she opens...

Sean Khan: ‘Jazz is full of little cliques, and musicians are not the nicest people’

London saxophonist and flautist Sean Khan has been much acclaimed for albums such as Palmares Fantasy, a 2018 collaboration with Hermeto Pascoal, 2021’s Supreme...

Ursula Harrison: ‘I usually avoid labelling myself as a jazz musician’

Bassist and composer Ursula Harrison, winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024, didn't have to cast widely for an influential exemplar: her mum, bassist...

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water – The Gospel of James Baldwin

The American bassist and singer sets the work of writer and activist James Baldwin as spoken word, song and church service

JJ 09/74: Jazz – emergence as an international art form

Fifty years ago the US avant-gardist Milo Fine lamented the effect of partisan politics on jazz, hoping that music would prevail

American Drummers 1959-88

An evocative photo collection from Val Wilmer includes Billy Higgins, Kenny Clarke and Ed Blackwell, as well as an off-duty Jimi Hendrix

Count Me In… 12/24

When Robert Johnson decided to “dust his broom” in 1936, he had embarked on what today might be described as stalking. Like a lot of other male-orientated blues lyrics, his indicate how he'd been mistreated by a woman and...

Obituary: Derek Ansell

Derek Ansell, who had written for Jazz Journal since the mid-80s, died suddenly, aged 90, on 13 December. He had reported a gastric problem as, in mid-November, he regretfully withdrew from writing an obituary of Lou Donaldson, a player...

JJ 01/95: Joe Zawinul – The Rise And Fall Of Third Stream

Thirty years ago Derek Ansell heard Zawinul struggle to make the classical-jazz fusion work but his feet moved to the 60s soul-jazz reprises

JJ 01/95: Jack Bruce – Cities Of The Heart

Thirty years ago Graham Colombé heard Bruce with Lowther, Heckstall-Smith and Themen proffering some effective blues singing and some avant-garde jazz before revisiting Cream tracks

JJ 01/85: Abdullah Ibrahim at Shaw Theatre, London

Forty years ago Simon Adams saw the high priest of jazz contemplation play a 70-minute piano medley before before moving to a second set including tense and powerful vocals