The music of Ornette Coleman has produced some of the most violent reactions, both for and against, seen on the jazz scene in some years. His music, whilst claiming...
Six decades ago Peter Welding met guitarist Bill Harris when he played in Philadelphia and found him exploiting the potential of the guitar itself rather than following the 1950s trend of emulating jazz horns. Ten years later Hendrix got rather more physical with the instrument, but this was an interesting early observation. Welding also sagely drew comparisons with flamenco and classical guitar
The music of Ornette Coleman has produced some of the most violent reactions, both for and against, seen on the jazz scene in some years. His music, whilst claiming...
Six decades ago Peter Welding met guitarist Bill Harris when he played in Philadelphia and found him exploiting the potential of the guitar itself rather than following the 1950s trend of emulating jazz horns. Ten years later Hendrix got rather more physical with the instrument, but this was an interesting early observation. Welding also sagely drew comparisons with flamenco and classical guitar
Drummer Florian Arbenz first heard American saxophonist Greg Osby on a Swiss radio jazz show back in 1991, which immediately inspired him to play “Osby’s sort of music”. In 1998, along with his pianist brother Michael, he finally plucked up the courage to ask Osby to collaborate with them both on what became a two-week tour. A common sense of humour bound them together, but it is only now that Osby and Arbenz have actually recorded together. The third person here is the painter Stephan Spicher, whose main themes in his paintings are...
The latest CD-ROM edition (21.0) of the longstanding Lord discography features 247,298 jazz recording sessions, adding 4,571 sessions since version 19.0.
The new issue also brings major leader section revisions and other updates, now reaching 51,152 leaders, over 1,423,691 musician entries and over 1,620,501 tune entries.
It also has an enhanced search facility, permitting a variety of advanced searches, including searching by individual word (e.g. "City") or a combination of two words (e.g. "Musician" + "Country").
The Jazz Discography was first published in printed form, between 1992 and...
This book represents a very substantial piece of musical transcription work, which seems fitting for this Parker centennial celebration year. The price...
The music of Ornette Coleman has produced some of the most violent reactions, both for and against, seen on the jazz scene in some years. His music, whilst claiming unique freedom, has, in fact, unique limitations. It is as good as the imaginations of the musicians playing it.
Whether it is inherent in Coleman or in the music itself, there is an almost total absence of melody in his playing, which at times borders on incoherence. A particularly bad example of this is his solo on "Rejoicing", where the tempo...
Fano is a small town in the region of Le Marche, in central Italy on the Adriatic coast. It's had a jazz festival since 1993, held across some of the town's very atmospheric venues. The main events this year were held at...
