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The Indestructible Eddie Condon
They called him The Indestructible, and that’s how we’ll remember him: with that trademark sneering smile, croaky voice, his ever-present guitar slung over his shoulder, a bottle of gin never far from reach, and Gershwin’s “Liza” floating in the background.
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John Cale: The Academy Inside and Out
A new recording life for two excellent albums from the 1970s
Remembering Martial Solal
The great pianist recently died at the ripe old age of 97, but he wasn't retired for long: when he said "enough" to live performances, he was 92, and he continued to write music until the end. We remember him with an extensive examination of his formative years
Lou Reed’s Pop Childhood
A journey through the seedy underbelly of the recording industry in the company of an unexpected artist
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Sergio Mendes: Pretty World
The recent death of the Brazilian pianist truly marks the end of an enchanted world: a true la-la land built in the perfect image and likeness of its ingenious creator
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
Tony Coe and the Pink Panther: A Canterbury Tale
Plas Johnson was the first saxophonist to take on the iconic theme—but from then on, it was the British musician’s turn to leave his mark on the later films in the series. Yet Coe did much more
Joys and sorrows of self-management: “Groups In Front Of People”
From Guus Janssen to Evan Parker, through Maarten Altena, Günter Christmann, Paul Lovens, Terry Day, Peter Cusack, Paul Termos and Paul Lytton.
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“The Big Gundown”: skeptic John Zorn pays homage to Ennio Morricone
Forty years ago, the intuition of a record that marked an era, even for its author
John Surman: the sound of the unspoken
Another masterpiece by a jazz master, almost an octogenarian after a half-century career and a constant presence on the European music scene.