An Easy Introduction To Bossa Nova – Top 20 Albums
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...
Jazz in review: 2019
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...
Still Clinging To The Wreckage 04/20
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...
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 10/90: Roy Hargrove – Diamond In The Rough
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...
Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool – the film
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...
