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Abdullah Ibrahim aka Dollar Brand: The Balance
Ibrahim says on a short note on the back cover of this LP "We push ourselves out of our comfort zones". Later he says "Technically it’s very,...
The outrageous Frances Faye
Leonard Feather once called Frances Faye “A consummate night-club performer” and comedian Joe E. Lewis nominated her as the “Queen of the super-clubs”. A jazz-influenced rather than...
Obituary: Clora Bryant
She was an exceptionally talented trumpet player, but Clora Bryant’s career was drastically and unfairly restricted because she was a woman. She came along at a time...
Jazz Transatlantic Vol II: Jazz Derivatives And Developments In Twentieth-Century Africa
Gerhard Kubik's magisterial, groundbreaking study comprises two simultaneously published volumes, the product of nearly 60 years' fieldwork by this doyen of ethnomusicology. Volume...
JJ 08/80: Ruby Braff at Pizza Express
Having acquired supreme technical authority, in my opinion Ruby Braff has tended to play it safe in recent years with quality material executed...
Green Book
Fifty-six years after LBJ officially ended racial discrimination in the USA with the pen-stroke that signed the Civil Rights Act, the years immediately preceding February 1964 are...
