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Retrospective by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, December 2010
AMAZING, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. At 80 years old, Ornette Coleman is still capable of generating overt displays of outrage without doing anything more than playing his ...
James Blood Ulmer: Free Lancing (Columbia)
Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, February 1982
ULMER IS A 39-year-old guitarist who's come up thru' blues bands and organ/guitar trios, thru the Del Vikings and Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars, thru ...
Obituary by Richard Cook, The Wire, November 1991
Richard Cook reflects on the great trumpeter's passing. ...
Live Review by John L. Walters, London Jazz News, 21 November 2016
CHARLIE'S LIBERATION MUSIC Orchestra was a product of the cultural moment outlined in the Victoria & Albert Museum's current exhibition You Say You Want a ...
Lionel Hampton: If anybody asks, tell them — Lionel is ready!
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 November 1969
LIONEL HAMPTON'S late-night appearance at Jazz Expo in London the other week caused disputation, to put it rather mildly. Some people found him exciting. Others ...
Charles Mingus, Erik Mingus: Eric Mingus: The big brand
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 4 July 2002
There's the Mingus Big Band, the Mingus Orchestra... and then there's Eric Mingus. He talks to Adam Sweeting about life in a jazz dynasty ...
Chet Baker: Talent, addiction and all that jazz
Retrospective by James Maycock, The Independent, May 1998
James Maycock looks at the life of trumpet great Chet Baker, who died 10 years ago this week ...
Ginger Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019)
Obituary by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, December 2019
Pressed rolls and warthog: The life and times of Ginger Baker ...
A little sax with the snorkelling: Spice Jazz festival, Grenada
Report by Chris Salewicz, Daily Telegraph, 3 March 2001
Grenada is trying to extend its season with a jazz festival. For Chris Salewitz, the listening was all too easy. ...
Bill Evans: Living Time With Evans
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 9 December 1972
NONE OF THE other diners appeared to recognise the pianist, but to anyone with jazz inklings he was unmistakable. The long, thick hair, cut page-boy ...
Al Jarreau: Moving Heaven and Earth
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 30 June 1992
A four year gap in between albums has caused Al Jarreau to carefully re-evaluate his career. The conclusions made and actions undertaken as shown on ...
Mike Westbrook: The First 50 Years
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Harper, Record Collector, October 2017
TAKE A TRIP around eBay and Discogs and you will conclude that Mike Westbrook is a man who makes rare records. Periodically, something from the ...
Wynton Marsalis: Shock of the New
Profile and Interview by John Lewis, The Guardian, 2 March 2007
Wynton Marsalis almost explodes with rage when he talks about hip-hop. So why has the jazz stalwart recorded a track on which he breaks into ...
Miles Davis: Miles Dewey Davis III (1926-1991)
Obituary by Fred Dellar, NME, 12 October 1991
"Jazz is ignored because the white man likes to win everything. White people like to see other white people win – and they can't win ...
Lianne La Havas: "I get pure happiness from making songs"
Interview by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 26 May 2013
She is compared to Sade and Amy Winehouse, with the biggest names in music lining up to duet with her. Barbara Ellen meets Lianne La ...
Cecil Taylor: Culture Spinach and Chaos Theory
Comment by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, April 2018
ONCE I DECIDED to write something on Cecil Taylor moving on to the next phase, I went back and counted the number of his albums ...
Interview by Richard Cook, The Wire, January 1988
In this rare interview, Europe's leading label boss explains exactly what ECM stands for. ...
Frank Sinatra, Robbie Williams, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.: The Rat Pack: Boys Keep Swinging
Retrospective by Dorian Lynskey, Q, February 2002
They were a gang of hard-drinking, soft-crooning, middle-aged smart alecs, and they were the walking, talking, wise-cracking definition of cool. Now, half a century later, ...
Kenny G, Grover Washington Jr, Steve Coleman, Jane Ira Bloom: Kenny G et al: Safe Sax
Report and Interview by Steve Bloom, Musician, July 1988
What's Sales Got to Do With It? A Lot. ...
The Crusaders: It's A Street Life In The Crusaders
Profile and Interview by Max Bell, NME, 22 September 1979
IT'S THE MID-1950s in Houston, Texas, east of Galveston Bay and west of the River Colorado, and some of the local folks are having themselves ...
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