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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
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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.
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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.
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.