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Derek Ansell

Derek Ansell writes fiction, biography and features. Workout: The Music of Hank Mobley is published by Northway Publications and has recently been reprinted. New novel The Bradgate Heiress has just been published by Creativia. His jazz and music writing for Jazz Journal and Newbury Weekly News has been expanded to cover classical music and theatre reviews. derekansellauthor.com

Jazz Revolutionary: The Life And Music Of Eric Dolphy

This is a thoroughly comprehensive, complete biography of Dolphy’s life and music. After an informative foreword by Jeff Schwartz and an introduction by the...

Obituary: Benny Golson

One of the last survivors of the golden age of bebop - the 1950s - tenor saxophonist and composer Benny Golson died on Saturday,...

Reviewed: Anders Malta | John Wright | Charlie Parker | Jerome Sabbagh

Anders Malta: Introducing Anders Malta Almost Big Band (April APR 13) Young Anders Malta, a student in 2016, heard the visiting Ernie Wilkins Almost Big...

Gabriela Martina: States

Swiss singer works out her states of mind and the states of America through a mixture of Latin waltz, pastoral ballad, rock, funk and rap
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Ray Charles: The Best Of

Long-playing vinyl collection covers late the 50s and early 60s and illustrates Charles's range, from pop to blues, jazz, R&B and gospel

Gianfranco Menzella: Dedicated To Bob Berg

Italian saxophonist Menzella leads piano, bass and drums in an authoritative tribute to the playing and repertoire of the late Bob Berg

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Another reprise of one of Coltrane's post-Vanguard chillout albums, here adding two additional tracks, bright red vinyl and new sleeve notes

The Notebooks Of Sonny Rollins

The famously self-examining saxophonist wrote telegraphic notes on his musical and spiritual progress and how much he fancied Gene Tierney
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Wayne Shorter: Introducing

The saxophonist might be best known for his work with Weather Report but there were indicators of his individuality in his earliest years

Miles Davis Quintet with Sonny Stitt: Live At The Free Trade Hall, Manchester 1960

Old and new rub shoulders at the crux of the 1960s transition as non-modal bopper Stitt and chord-averse Davis are thrown together

Miles Davis: At Newport, 1955 & 1958

The trumpeter is heard with Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans and others

Bill Evans Trio: Explorations

The trio's 1961 studio set is sometimes passed over in favour of its contemporaneous live dates at the Village Vanguard but it shouldn't be
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