Lost Recordings

From Guus Janssen to Evan Parker, through Maarten Altena, Günter Christmann, Paul Lovens, Terry Day, Peter Cusack, Paul Termos and Paul Lytton.

Over the years, the British producer and his wife Madaleine have built a monument to improvised music that is now in serious danger of being lost

With the disappearance of the saxophonist from the former GDR, an indispensable figure in European jazz and improvised music, the protagonist of a thousand adventures, especially with his old Zentralquartett pals: Sommer, Gumpert and Bauer. We commemorate his life and work

Summer edition of our column of assorted follies; a journey into the "new sounds" of engineer Moog's strange invention, among bald composers and jazz musicians incognito.

The curious artistic history of the Anglo-Neapolitan cellist and arranger who went from David Bowie to Miles Davis and from Elton John to Italian pop: why did everyone want him?

Between Mongo Santamaría and Santana, Janis Joplin and Joe Henderson, the Houston trumpeter lived the 1970s to the fullest, leaving some significant traces of himself

Of the 41 albums that make up the catalog of the now-defunct German label, only four are still missing: and they are no small records, either

The Hammond organ-guitar-drums formation has always been the essential ingredient for cooking the most free-range black music to perfection: here are the dishes of three fine cooks

Among the many forgotten records of the great singer, there are authentic masterpieces waiting to be finally consecrated: here is one of them

The Antwerp pianist (but also church organist, accordionist and composer) died in January 2022. Here we recall some of his many adventures