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Well cooked and spicy, the recipe for soul jazz
The Hammond organ-guitar-drums formation has always been the essential ingredient for cooking the most free-range black music to perfection: here are the dishes of three fine cooks
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John McLaughlin: my India
A summary reflection - no claim to completeness, and entirely incidental - on the strong and enduring influence of India on the English guitarist.
All About Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell is the ideal musician of the postmodern age – the age of “complexity.” So ideal, in fact, that he remains unique.
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Jazz Producers / Michel Dorbon – Pascal Rozat – Stéphane Berland – Philippe Ghielmetti – Bertrand Gastaut
Many independent French labels have contributed significantly to the jazz scene in recent decades by releasing high-quality records: here is the beginning of a small journey (which will continue) through the background of production from across the border.
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Marisa Monte: Portas
The great Brazilian singer is always an authentic explorer: in love with the past, but projecting into the future. On the occasion of her return to Italy, where she lived a few years ago, we asked her to tell us her story.
John Cage: Inhabiting Music and Image
The death of Roberto Masotti unfortunately interrupted work on this article, which was dedicated to his last work for Seipersei, John Cage: In A Landscape. The "Cage question", which had been settled in an early draft of the article, could no longer face a final reflection with him.
Timeless seductions: Sposin’ by Helen Merrill
Among the many forgotten records of the great singer, there are authentic masterpieces waiting to be finally consecrated: here is one of them
Soul Jazz!
Starting with our CD dedicated to one of the inventors of soul jazz, Bobby Timmons, we trace the history of this singular current that has dominated African-American music for at least a decade.
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Nancy Wilson: Sound and Style
For African-American audiences, the magnificent voice from Ohio has long been the quintessential jazz singer, the only one who has managed to maintain a constant popularity and her own diva status through the changing musical scenes.
John Lurie & Lounge Lizards
A violent, brutal immersion in the New York of the very early 1980s, no longer even decadent, just rotten: a poisoned Apple.