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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.
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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
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
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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.
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