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Chris Barber: Memories Of My Trip
Chris recently announced his retirement, well earned after 70+ years of playing and band leading. This reissued two-CD album, originally put together in 2010, is a tribute to his...
Jazz and cricket: unlikely companions
Vic Lewis’ showbiz team played against one of the more curious teams that emerged at that time - the Ravers C.C. Founded in 1954 in the Blue Posts pub,...
Count Me In 08/20
Having named vibraphonist Joe Locke and his band's recording of Make Me Feel Like It's Raining (from Subtle Disguise) as my ubiquitous track of the pandemic, I see -...
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 11/90: Steve Lacy – interviewed
'Back in the fifties I started with New Orleans, Chicago style, Kansas City and New York. The whole history of jazz I went through really - sort of fast....
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...
