Marlene: I Think Of You With Every Breath I Take / Pat O’Day: When Your Lover Has Gone
While Marlene might have pre-dated Beyoncé by decades in the single name stakes, she put a stop to it in the year she recorded this album, married Billy Ver...
Music with frontiers
Those fortunate enough to make a living from the “liberal” professions such as journalists, artists, actors and musicians are dependent upon many factors, one of the most important of...
Obituary: Richard Wyands
Richard Wyands began studying the piano at the age of seven or eight and showed remarkable proficiency. By his own admission, “I was very good. Almost a prodigy”. 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 09/70: Blacks, Whites and Blues
Fifty years ago, Graham Boatfield enjoyed Tony Russell demolishing the artificial barriers between blacks, whites and blues. First published in Jazz Journal, September 1970
Bolden
I learned everything I know about Buddy Bolden from Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya, the one indispensable book about jazz from soup to nuts, co-edited by Nat Hentoff and...