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BATL Quartet: Live
The band’s name is derived from the initials of its co-leaders, Brandon Allen and Tim Lapthorne. Although it’s a relatively new formation the pair have collaborated in various settings...
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Pete Christlieb: A tenor for all seasons /2
Continued from last month...Among the many who have validated Pete's very personal sound is Warne Marsh. At their first meeting on a rehearsal of the Clare Fischer band, Pete...
Bazzer the jazzer
My appreciation of the esteemed critic Barry McRae (Jazz Journal, 17 May 2019) has certainly produced some interesting correspondence.
I observed in my piece that Barry’s book The Jazz Handbook certainly deserved...
Eberhard Weber: A German Jazz Story
This is a characterful and consistently entertaining, even compulsive, read. Translator Heidi Kirk has done a fine job in bringing over into English the no-nonsense cadences and dry humour...
JJ 08/71: Miles Davis – Jack Johnson
There are no details on the sleeve of this album, and the personnel above is a compound of near certainty, other people's guesses, and what my own ears tell...
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: Live
In 2005 Jazz Door released a DVD (seemingly now unobtainable) containing music by Duke Ellington and (separately) Sarah Vaughan, supposedly from Berlin concerts in 1969. In fact three of...
