Beverly Kelly: Sings / Dolores Hawkins: Dolores
Here’s another two-LP collection of music in Fresh Sound’s fine Best Voices Time Forgot series. The first 12 tracks are from Beverly Kelly’s 1957 album made for a company...
Chris Spedding: living life backwards /1
There are few musicians who appear at home in almost every genre, but Chris Spedding is one of those rare exceptions. As a go-to guitarist and all-purpose session man,...
Peter Green: a jazz appreciation
He was a blues player and he wasn’t a jazz player - especially in the more strictly defined terms of the 1960s, when the jazz-guitar hegemony was Charlie Christian,...
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 05/79: Terje Rypdal, Palle Mikkelborg & John Christensen / Neil Ardley Group at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Whilst having a deep admiration for Neil Ardley's obvious talents, I have to admit to a sense of disappointment in regard to his latest 'concept', Harmony of the Spheres....
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The film is not a biopic of Ma Rainey – if such a thing were ever possible. There could be few musicians as complicated as her
