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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.
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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
Martin Davidson’s orphans: records from the Emanem catalog
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
The fine line between fact and legend: Massey Hall concert returns
The reissue of the "greatest concert of all time" gives us the opportunity to lift the carpet of history a little and sift through the dust that has accumulated underneath.
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Arthur Prysock: the crooner with deep blues shadows
Arthur Prysock, born exactly one hundred years ago, was one of the warmest and most seductive voices of a forty-year period of black music, moving with elegance and depth between jazz, blues, R&B, country and even disco tracks, without ever losing its powerful magnetic force on the most mature and demanding African-American audiences.
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.
Buck Hill: The Man Who Lived Twice
He was nicknamed "Buck" after Buck Rogers, the famous cartoon character of his youth. Roger "Buck" Hill was a prominent saxophonist who sacrificed a potentially great career for the modest security of a letter carrier's job, but who never envied the far more famous masters of his instrument
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Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky: before and after the GDR
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
Mort Garson and the Moog: Hair and Toupees
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.