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Sean Noonan, Alex Ward: Noonward
Alex Ward emerged out of the Derek Bailey circle as a free improviser of pleasingly other-worldly aspect, and it was something of a...
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...
The BBC jazz axe
I was dismayed to read that the powers-that-be at BBC Radio 3 are planning to axe Soweto Kinch's Jazz Now and Geoffrey Smith's Jazz from September this...
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 04/80: London news and views – Stinky Winkles
In JJ April 1980 Matthew Bateson introduced one of the most original British products of jazz-rock: 'A five piece ensemble, their music is more eclectic than that of most fusion groups; for although jazz and rock are primary elements, they also draw from funk and free improvisation, along with concepts taken from 20th century ‘straight’ music.'
Count Basie: Live
The “Atomic” Basie band made frequent tours of the UK, Europe and Scandinavia in the 1960s and this one captures it at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi,...
