Bill Evans Trio: Waltz For Debby
The classic album from Evans, LaFaro and Motian gets another outing, this time on the Jazz Images label, whose USP is the use of photographs by the...
Mulligan memories, part 1
Arlyne Brown (songwriter Lew Brown’s daughter) was married to Gerry Mulligan during the 1950s and for a while she was also his personal manager. Jean Bach arranged...
Alt. takes 02/20
Tinnitus, the Times headline shouted, can affect mental health. And this is news? As with so much else in the dead-tree press these days, the story was...
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 10/80: Juhani Aaltonen – Springbird
With instrumentation varying from one track to the next, with all manner of flutes, kotos and Senegalese percussion involved, this looked like a rewarding LP. It was...
Sarah Vaughan: Live
Aged 50 at the time, 1974, Sarah Vaughan is in her vocal prime here. This release presents two television shows that were under the title Jazz From...
