Rosina Hepburn: Write Me A Song
This is a delightful combination of old and new. The old is heard in the material, several of the songs being classics from a bygone era. Even the two...
Wendy Kirkland, the singing pianist
Pianist-singer Wendy Kirkland is consolidating her status as a force in British jazz, especially in the sector populated by "piano divas", the title of the hugely popular début album...
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 12/79: Oscar Peterson – The Paris Concert
Space precludes the kind of detailed run-down both these albums deserve, so I'll have to limit myself to the statement that both, in their different ways and styles, demonstrate...
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, 1961, in...
