This year's Battersea Jazz Festival, 3-12 July, brings national and international names to south London in nine performances. Jim Mullen, appearing with his organ... Now in its fifth edition, the 2025 ...
Continuing from where the fine 1992 recording You Never Know (ECM 1497) left off, Time Being features a range of intelligently turned, emotionally compelling compositions by Erskine and Taylor. Kenny ...
Nicole Mitchell is a renowned flautist and former chair of the AACM. Ballaké Sissoko an innovative kora player from Mali. Both are esteemed composers and both have defied convention in their ...
"Growing up in Philadelphia, Vince Ector recorded his first album under the leadership of organist Charles Earland and the music here reflects that kind of ambience, with originals mixed with tunes ...
Despite Beatlemania and the Swinging Sixties fizzing all around it, the London jazz scene at that time was full of young bands determinedly getting themselves together. Group Sounds Five was one of ...
As was observed in a recent review of another record featur­ing Scofield (Solar, featuring Abercrombie and Scofield, JJI November ’83), he did not make his name by playing bebop, though that release ...
This slight piece of Ellinqtonia was first issued on Stateside SL 10073, and reviewed by our Editor in May, 1964. The music was written for the Century of Negro Progress Ex­position staged in Chicago ...