Musica Jazz Dossiers are in-depth articles on fundamental themes and artists in jazz.
Written by our best contributors and accompanied by exclusive photos, they represent the heart of jazz music history.
After years of requests from university students and enthusiasts, they are now available and updated on this page.
Dossiers
George Russell: 100th birthday of an innovator
In 1923, in Cincinnati, one of the great masters of jazz was born, among all the one who has collected the least in proportion to his merits. We retrace his fundamental theoretical activity and, in his own words, also a life that was certainly not easy but very productive
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Miles Davis. She: “I love you, I love you, we have to do it…”
Miles Davis only watches the movie twice. He asks questions about the plot and the characters. Until, on a night off from concerts, he enters a studio on the Champs-Elysées.
Alice Coltrane: the Spiritual Jazz
Is there a connection between this category of uncertain boundaries - and equally elusive definition - and perhaps one of the most misinterpreted figures in the jazz scene of the 1960s and 1970s?
Betty Davis Mabry: Much More Than Miles’ Muse
Betty Mabry Davis (1944–2022) was a complex, trailblazing figure whose artistic legacy stretches far beyond the shadow of the legendary trumpeter she once married. She was, at once, a singer, songwriter, producer, and performer—roles rarely, if ever, simultaneously occupied by an African-American woman in her era.
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Townships: On the Path of Music, Grace and Horror
A brief excursus, without claiming to be complete, more like a series of notes, on the long and troubled history of the thousand musics that have animated South Africa.
The origins of bop
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell-they were little more than boys who gave birth to modern jazz during World War II, often in the clubs of New York's 52nd Street. They did so by studying their colleagues of the previous generation and then developing a music that was adventurous, complex, and still alive today
John McLaughlin: my India
A summary reflection - no claim to completeness, and entirely incidental - on the strong and enduring influence of India on the English guitarist.
Jazz Producers / Michel Dorbon – Pascal Rozat – Stéphane Berland – Philippe Ghielmetti – Bertrand Gastaut
Many independent French labels have contributed significantly to the jazz scene in recent decades by releasing high-quality records: here is the beginning of a small journey (which will continue) through the background of production from across the border.
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John Cage: Inhabiting Music and Image
The death of Roberto Masotti unfortunately interrupted work on this article, which was dedicated to his last work for Seipersei, John Cage: In A Landscape. The "Cage question", which had been settled in an early draft of the article, could no longer face a final reflection with him.
Soul Jazz!
Starting with our CD dedicated to one of the inventors of soul jazz, Bobby Timmons, we trace the history of this singular current that has dominated African-American music for at least a decade.