Miles Davis: Rubberband
Anyone insouciantly dismissing Rubberband as just another cashing-in exercise amongst a swathe of “lost” recordings should do so at their peril. This is certainly not the case....
Mary Lou Williams: high in the charts
A highly talented pianist and composer, Mary Lou Williams was also one of the very best arrangers of her generation. Yet when arrangers are written about or...
Looking for Ted Curson
I enjoyed making the acquaintance of the new online version of JJ and reading about Brian Morton's encounter with trumpeter Ted Curson in Finland in his excellent Alt....
Desire In Chromatic Harmony
Kenneth Smith has a brilliant new approach to understanding chromatic music. To grasp it, an academic background in music but also in philosophy...
JJ 02/59: Gil Evans And Ten
Gil Evans is an ambitious, interesting writer who has a great future — providing he doesn't allow his work to become too complex and thus stray outside...
Modern Jazz Quartet: Live
The glut of plastic that is choking the oceans of the world is entirely due to the surfeit of CDs and DVDs by the Dave Brubeck Quartet...
