Long Form 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.
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Wes Montgomery as told by Ron Carter, Bill Frisell, Herbie Hancock, Mike Stern and Marcus Miller
The official release of a series of phantasmagoric live recordings by the great guitarist, and the words of some of his famous colleagues
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Illinois Jacquet: a Master of the Saxophone
It was his searing solos on the harmonies of Flying Home that made the Louisiana saxophonist (1922-2004) famous, but those solos also masked his considerable virtues as an improviser in the classical school of tenor saxophone.
Gato Barbieri: 1964, waiting for Paradiso
Andrea Polinelli, saxophonist, composer, teacher, researcher and translator, publishes for Artdigiland a rich monograph dedicated to Gato Barbieri, the result of more than five years of work (Gato Barbieri. A biography from Italy, between jazz, pop and cinema).
To the Max: the greatness of Massimo Urbani
A brief journey through the Roman musician's recorded albums, on the anniversary of his death, to try to focus on his greatness
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John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy at the Village Gate
We delve into the extraordinary discovery of an unreleased 1961 recording featuring the quartet of Coltrane and Coltrane's quartet is joined by Dolphy: a collaboration that here reaches absolute heights.
The Casa Loma Orchestra: Jazz’s first cooperative
In the early 1930s, it was America's most popular orchestra, but today it is almost completely forgotten: we retrace the adventurous events of a band that defined an era, amidst mock-gothic castles and guns and clubs in the dressing rooms.
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
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?
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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