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.
Long Form
Steve Lacy: Phase One
Ninety years after the birth and twenty years after the death of the great soprano, we look at the first, perhaps the least known, phase of his career, between the ages of twenty and thirty
In praise of impure jazz
A long essay offering many topics for reflection and discussion, accompanied by a selection of Robeto Polillo's magnificent photographs
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
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.
- Advertisement -
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
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.
- Advertisement -
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?