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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

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

From Guus Janssen to Evan Parker, through Maarten Altena, Günter Christmann, Paul Lovens, Terry Day, Peter Cusack, Paul Termos and Paul Lytton.

Forty years ago, the intuition of a record that marked an era, even for its author

Another masterpiece by a jazz master, almost an octogenarian after a half-century career and a constant presence on the European music scene.

A long essay offering many topics for reflection and discussion, accompanied by a selection of Robeto Polillo's magnificent photographs

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, 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.

The official release of a series of phantasmagoric live recordings by the great guitarist, and the words of some of his famous colleagues

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.