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”...
Zev the Detective
Known worldwide as the “Jazz Detective”, Zev Feldman has built his reputation through the meticulous recovery of rare and previously unreleased recordings by artists...
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...
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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,...
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....
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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...
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...