368 articles
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
Sarah Vaughan & Her Trio: Swingin’ Easy
Vinyl reissue adds bonus tracks to the singer's mid-late 50s album with John Malachi, Jimmy Jones, Richard Davis, Joe Benjamin and Roy Haynes
Ron Carter with Eric Dolphy & Mal Waldron: Where?
Three post-beboppers incorporate something of Ornette Coleman's 'new thing' in a 1961 set including George Duvivier and Charles Persip
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Caravan
The Messengers' 1962 Riverside album signalled a stylistic departure from its Blue Note work, offering more variety and more relaxation
Obituary: Michael Cuscuna
The Connecticut-born jazz fan was the saviour of a wealth of forgotten, unreleased recordings and a champion of audiophile reissues
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Obituary: Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath
The tutti-frutti loving drummer provided undemonstrative propulsion for Coltrane, Lateef and the MJQ and brushed out the beat for Nina Simone
The Jamie Baum Septet+: What Times Are These
Poetry-inspired music from New York flautist has a sometimes funky, sometimes swinging, sometimes elegiac tilt
Zev Feldman: digging out the lost gems
The producer responsible for a host of releases of previously unissued jazz in recent years thinks much of the best music is in the past
Bev Kelly: Love Locked Out
The singer was a master of the gloom of love gone wrong, but her 1959 Riverside album really needed one or two brighter tracks
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Duke Ellington: Blues In Orbit
In 1958 and 1959 an Ellington orchestra including Johnny Hodges and Ray Nance produced 13 relaxed and engaging variations on the blues
Jackie And Roy: You Smell So Good
The jazz appeal of the duo - including scat-singing and sidemen such as Barney Kessel - was clear on their first album, here with bonuses
Max Roach: It’s Time
For this 1962 session a 16-piece choir joined the drummer's sextet. It didn't really work, the shouts and chants cramping the fine bebop
Wes Montgomery: Groove Yard
Virgin vinyl reissue of the Montgomery brothers' 1961 album includes an alternate take of the bebop head Doujie
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