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A jazz suite not just for Christmas
The Infant: A Jazz Suite For Christmas is multi-instrumentalist and composer Tim Boniface's latest work, to be released on CD and digitally in November 2019....
JJ 10/59: Gil Evans – New Bottle Old Wine
Gil Evans has become an important figure in jazz, partly by virtue of an important work he has done with Miles Davis, but equally...
JJ 10/59: In My Opinion – Benny Green
This is one of a series of taped interviews with musicians, who are asked to give a snap opinion on a set of records...
JJ 10/59: Wheat from chaff
For some time now it has been our contention that far too many mediocre jazz records are being issued each month. Records which have...
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World-class jazz masters for Teesside from Sunday
Following the success of its inaugural launch last year, the popular Sunday Jazz Weekender is set for a welcome return to Teesside, this time bringing with...
Ginger’s jazz days
I was sorry to learn that Ginger Baker had died. He was in my band, The Storyville Jazzmen (later led by Bob Wallis) back...
Jazz and cricket memories
Many thanks to Matthew Wright for his informative and entertaining articles on jazz and cricket. In today's high-pressure, money-driven society it's not easy to...
Jazz and more from accordion virtuoso Jonny Kerry
In a new release, the Jonny Kerry quartet covers the gamut of styles associated with the modern accordion, including gypsy jazz, bossa nova, tango...
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Brenda Earle Stokes: between the piano and the voice
The piano-vocalist duo format has been a mainstay of jazz for generations, providing ample opportunity to showcase both singer and pianist, while serving to...
Tina May and John Seeley swing into Maldon
The pleasant little town of Maldon on the Essex coast has been well known for centuries. In 991 it saw an epic battle between...
JJ 09/89: Sun Ra – Cosmic Equation / The Sun Myth / Dancing Shadows
Way back when the New Thing was a young thing, these Heliocentric World recordings were pathfinders, an imbroglio of organised chaos in which the...
JJ 09/89: Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw – The Eternal Triangle
The Eternal Triangle is a follow up to the well received Double Take recorded in 1985. Hubbard, now long distanced from purely commercial considerations,...
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