Diana Torti w. Sabino de Bari: On a Cloud
It was a relief to open the gatefold halfway through listening to this and encountering the name of Jeanne Lee, since that is exactly what I had...
Trumping the future: The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon’s book The Manchurian Candidate was published in 1959 and quickly became a best-seller. It was described by The New Yorker as “a wild and exhilarating...
Obituary: Wallace Roney
Though Miles Davis didn’t give lessons to young trumpeters, he made an exception for Wallace Roney, a talented young man from Philadelphia, gifted with perfect pitch, but...
Desire In Chromatic Harmony
Kenneth Smith has a brilliant new approach to understanding chromatic music. To grasp it, an academic background in music but also in philosophy...
JJ 08/60: Miles Davis: Walkin’
This record contains some of the finest modern jazz ever put on record. The period was a particularly good one for Miles Davis....
Count Basie – Through His Own Eyes
This is an excellently assembled documentary which tells us a good deal more about Basie as a person than could be gleaned from...
