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Plas Johnson: This Must Be The Plas!
Plas Johnson? Who? That’s the question every buff gets whenever there is mention of the late and unknown saxophonist from Los Angeles, California. However, without realising, everybody...
Tony Kofi: now’s his time
Since he first appeared on the London scene with the Jazz Warriors in the early 1990s, Nottingham-born saxophonist Tony Kofi has risen to become as one of...
The BBC jazz axe
I was dismayed to read that the powers-that-be at BBC Radio 3 are planning to axe Soweto Kinch's Jazz Now and Geoffrey Smith's Jazz from September this...
Jazz Transatlantic Vol II: Jazz Derivatives And Developments In Twentieth-Century Africa
Gerhard Kubik's magisterial, groundbreaking study comprises two simultaneously published volumes, the product of nearly 60 years' fieldwork by this doyen of ethnomusicology. Volume...
JJ 08/70: John Stevens – Spontaneous Music Ensemble
The producer of this musical experience considers that all it requires is an open mind. I think it requires the same capacity for...
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...
