Jazz FM Awards nominees announced
British radio station Jazz FM has announced the nominations for its 2019 awards, the winners of which will be announced at Shoreditch Town Hall, London on 30 April, to coincide with International Jazz Day.
Obituary: Urbie Green
Urbie Green, the “trombonist’s trombonist”, was born in Mobile, Alabama, 8 August 1926. He studied piano and began on trombone at the...
Roz Harding: are people listening, or seeing?
Reviewing a concert by Mike Westbrook’s Uncommon Orchestra for the JJ website in April 2016 I singled out a young alto player...
Uncharted Creativity and the Expert Drummer
Tirelessly researched and seemingly aimed at scholarly types and the academic end of the drumming community (though musos in general will find...
Cool Joe Henderson
I enjoyed Brian Morton's Alt. takes (JJ 1218) and particularly his notes on Joe Henderson (tho' I'd read a seed catalogue if Brian's name were the byline).
I interviewed Henderson at his hotel when he was over...
JJ 01/69: Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple
Wayne Shorter is a bitch. A beautiful, complete player who since joining Miles has passed beyond his Coltrane phase, to a wholly personal sound and style. He has a basically tough tone but he can bend into sensitive softness (as in Jimmy Rowles' 502 Blues) when a song demands it. 'Adam's Apple', along with McCoy Tyner's 'The Real McCoy' rates with the classic small group Blue Note albums which seem to have...
Preston, Glasgow, Lowe: Something about Rainbows
Here we have what may, I suppose, be designated a jazz-rock album (a rarity these days, and it's fascinating that Kevin Glasgow,...
Clare Teal: Swing’s the Thing, Cadogan Hall
There is, it would appear, no truth in the rumour that Clare Teal is on the verge of changing her name to Topsy...
Green Book
Fifty-six years after LBJ officially ended racial discrimination in the USA with the pen-stroke that signed the Civil Rights Act, the years...
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Fifty-six years after LBJ officially ended racial discrimination in the USA with the pen-stroke that signed the Civil Rights Act, the years...
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