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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?
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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.
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
Bill Henderson: Swing and wit of a great Chicago voice
An excellent actor, but an even more remarkable singer, the Chicago master left a deep mark on the history of jazz singing: here we recall his very long career, lest he be forgotten.
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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
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.