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Various: A Song Is Born OST
Premiered in New York In October 1948, A Song Is Born was greeted with only moderate acclaim despite technicolor, production costs of nearly three million dollars, and...
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Kenny Werner: in praise of detachment
Kenny Werner’s 2018 solo album The Space was a work of striking lyricism and improvisational inventiveness. The album’s title was of great significance for Werner: it alluded...
Obituary: Bill Smith
Clarinettist and composer Bill Smith, or William Overton Smith to give him his full name, was best known as a member of the octet which the pianist...
Make It New: Reshaping Jazz In The 21st Century
Bill Beuttler's interesting and timely book, in its format at least, is a 21st-century counterpart of Joe Goldberg's Jazz Masters Of The 1950s, published in 1965. Both...
JJ 01/69: Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple
Wayne Shorter is a bitch. A beautiful, complete player who since joining Miles has passed beyond his Coltrane phase, to a wholly personal sound and style. He...
Norah Jones: Live at Ronnie Scott’s
Jones’s Come Away With Me album was a great example of highly effective music marketing, using what might seem like the most unlikely of techniques - selling...
