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Lou Reed’s Pop Childhood
A journey through the seedy underbelly of the recording industry in the company of an unexpected artist
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
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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.
“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.
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
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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
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.