This particular album contains Dave Brubeck’s impressions of a trip to Japan in the spring of 1964, and the music is just about as pointless and pretentious as anything he has ever recorded. Giving ...
Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook with Horace silver on piano at the Birdhouse in Chicago in December 1960. Photo by Laird Scott Junior Cook (1934-1992) occupies a paradoxical space, simultaneously one of ...
Yet another jazz dynasty may be upon us as Bill Evans’ grandson releases a recital of Evans compositions. Evans On Evans (Shamus Records) features Bill Evans pieces reinterpreted by the 16-year-old ...
When pianist Rachael Z released the track Bodhisattva ahead of Sensual, her 13th solo album, one at first assumed it would be a jazzed-up cover of the 70s Steely Dan song. What streamed was a slick re ...
Anthony George Coe was born in Canterbury in 1934 and began playing the clarinet around 1948. He had classical training on the instrument from Paddy Purcell (a pupil of Charles Draper) and took ...
This is one of the most approachable, impressionistic and mellifluous releases in the Discus catalogue, which is not to suggest that it lacks focus or drama, albeit mostly of a subtle kind. The ...
I have to admit that I found listening to this album rather tedious. With the exception of The Time, the tracks have a sameness about them and, as you might expect, each is dominated by Ginger Baker’s ...
With this album, Weather Report restore interest and credibility. Past efforts have been guilty of all manner of vapid redundancy, but this has rich content, imagination, fire and passion. A shift of ...
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