Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba
With a combined age of over 220 years, there isn’t too much that Cyrille, Frisell and Smith do not understand when it comes to the art of...
Rhoda Scott: An American in Paris
“I just finished my thesis on Lou Bennett”.
Her voice on the phone is fragile like a wounded butterfly. But her answers are clear-cut....
‘Mike Osborne took a path I could never really get excited about’
My father ran a butcher's shop in Hereford and the family lived in a flat above the shop. Diagonally across the road was a ladies' hairdresser's run...
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 04/69: Chick Corea – Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
This is the best piano album I've heard in some time. Corea was unknown to me until his tour here on the last-but-one Getz visit and Getz's...
Otto Preminger’s Anatomy Of A Murder
This 1959 movie by director Otto Preminger offered two innovations. It was the first time a jazz score had been used exclusively throughout...
