Vanessa Perica Orchestra: Love Is A Temporary Madness
Australian composer and bandleader Perica explores all the different textures available in an orchestral setting on this album. It’s a surprising mix of frenetic, interwoven, pulsing themes and quieter...
Louis Armstrong: nobody’s fool
John White's instructive tour through Philip Larkin's writing on Louis Armstrong got me thinking. I can well understand Larkin's ire when, in James Lincoln Collier's biography of Armstrong, he...
Outside And Inside: Race And Identity In White Jazz Autobiography
In 2004, Reva Marin was a finalist for the Fleck Award for the best book in the category Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. Her entry was Oscar: The Life And Music...
JJ 09/79: Bracknell festival 1979 reviewed
This was not one of the strongest Bracknell Festivals. There was plenty of overseas interest but, at the end of the day, much of the success was due to...
Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool – the film
Fans of Miles Davis may remember some grainy old footage of the trumpeter shadowboxing in a gym sometime during the mid-1960s. It’s a clip that in previous docs has...
