The New Wave of the British Jazz Scene
If New York still represents the stronghold of traditional American jazz, London and its surrounding areas have become fertile ground for a “new jazz”...
Miroslav Vitouš: “Music doesn’t come from me – It simply passes through me”
When Miroslav Vitouš was not yet a year old, in 1948, Prague and Czechoslovakia officially entered the Stalinist orbit following a Communist coup d’état....
Reinaldo Santiago: Between Italy and Brazil
With ELLAS, Brazilian drummer Reinaldo Santiago revisits Música Popular Brasileira through a musical perspective deeply rooted in samba de roda and capoeira traditions. The...
Mario Caccia and Abeat: Twenty-Five Years of Quality
Let’s start with your personal journey. How did you find your way to jazz, and eventually to founding Abeat?
“It all began almost by accident,...
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Willy DeVille: The Last of the Romantics
New York in the mid-1970s was a city full of wounds. The streets of the Lower East Side were dirty corridors where neon signs...
Richie Beirach: Softer Than Loud
The name – and musical destiny – of Richard Beirach, who died on 26 January at the age of seventy-eight (he was born in...
Farewell, Mr Portal!
I began to love Michel Portal even before I had actually heard his music. A paradox, certainly, but that is exactly how things happened....
Miles Davis Special – Seven Steps to Miles #1
On 19 August 2021, while walking through Central Park, I was handed a little memoir written by a certain Green Gostard who, apparently, in...
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The arc of Hadley Caliman, an eclectic saxophonist
I still recall the sense of quiet astonishment I felt, as a teenager, on first hearing Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation, the opening track of...
Jany McPherson: I bring tradition and innovation into dialogue
From the rhythmic roots of Cuba to the syntax of contemporary jazz. In an exclusive interview conducted in the quiet of Rome’s Sala Petrassi,...