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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.
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Frank Zappa: Praise of a beautiful nothingness
From the depths of the archives finally comes a gem: the link between two Zappa myths like "Hot Rats" and "Chunga's Revenge"
The touch of Paul Buckmaster: Chitinous Ensemble and other stories
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?
George Russell: 100th birthday of an innovator
In 1923, in Cincinnati, one of the great masters of jazz was born, among all the one who has collected the least in proportion to his merits. We retrace his fundamental theoretical activity and, in his own words, also a life that was certainly not easy but very productive
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Tina Turner: The Blues Years
Over the course of her decades-long career, the celebrated singer, who has just passed away, was first the darling of the ghetto people, then the architect of the rapprochement between black and white popular aesthetics and the idol of the Woodstock generation, and finally a diva without adjectives. An almost unique and unrepeatable case.
Sex, drugs and Luis Gasca: on the road between Texas and California
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
Alice Coltrane: the Spiritual Jazz
Is there a connection between this category of uncertain boundaries - and equally elusive definition - and perhaps one of the most misinterpreted figures in the jazz scene of the 1960s and 1970s?
Townships: On the Path of Music, Grace and Horror
A brief excursus, without claiming to be complete, more like a series of notes, on the long and troubled history of the thousand musics that have animated South Africa.
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The origins of bop
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell-they were little more than boys who gave birth to modern jazz during World War II, often in the clubs of New York's 52nd Street. They did so by studying their colleagues of the previous generation and then developing a music that was adventurous, complex, and still alive today
JAPO’s four great absentees
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