This box set is a pretty sizeable affair with nine CDs containing 20 albums, mostly from the bossa nova craze of the late 50s and early 60s. It includes...
Simon Adams
A Good Year: For the Love Supreme Festival in Sussex, at which the unexpected highlight this past year was a Spanish-enthused Chick Corea but which also introduced me...
Thanks to its anchoring by Alyn Shipton, BBC Radio Three’s Jazz Record Requests has a permanency in the jazz calendar bestowed on it by Alyn’s balanced gravitas and stable...
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...
Roy Hargrove, who made a very positive mark with the group Generations at last year's JVC New York Festival, is an habitual jam session man. He made his initial...
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...