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Dexter Gordon: The Exile's Return
Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 27 May 1978
Fashion and fate have dealt a few blows — but now DEXTER GORDON is cutting in, recapturing America and standing CBS on its head. The ...
Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell: Charles Mingus, Jazz Pioneer, Dead
Obituary by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 9 January 1979
CHARLES MINGUS, the innovative jazz composer, band leader and bassist, died Friday night in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He was 56. ...
Charles Mingus: Charlie Mingus: April 22, 1922 — Jan 5, 1979
Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 January 1979
SOME TIME back a 'friend' borrowed a large number of my jazz albums — and sold them. All I can say is that the rip-off ...
Frank Sinatra: She Shot Me Down (Reprise)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, April 1982
IF, AS THE THEORY GOES, there's a little bit of Van Halen in everyone come Saturday night, then you can safely bet your last dollar ...
David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Working Week: Absolute Beginners
Special Feature by Adam Sweeting, Brian Case, Melody Maker, 22 March 1986
AT LONG last, it's almost here. Poor old JULIEN TEMPLE has been working on his movie of Colin MacInnes' novel Absolute Beginners apparently since the ...
Tony Williams Reinvents Himself
Interview by Tony Scherman, Musician, June 1991
Can't stop worrying, can't stop growing. The world's best drummer turns to composing. ...
Joe Sample: Classic Invitation
Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 25 May 1993
Joe's new Invitation album of standards provides him with the musical therapy he felt he badly needed and gave him the chance to "move on"... ...
Jimmy Witherspoon: 'Ain't Nobody's Business': The No Rollin' Blues of Jimmy Witherspoon
Retrospective and Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, 24 May 1996
"I'D RATHER open up a show than to close it," Jimmy Witherspoon said emphatically. "'Cause I know whoever follows me is gonna have to sing." ...
Gary Lucas: Invisible Jukebox: Gary Lucas
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, February 2001
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Nina Simone: Always Searching for a Key
Obituary by Ian Penman, The Wire, June 2003
The realisation that she was black in a country run by whites, a woman in a world run by men, turned Nina Simone into 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 ...
George Russell: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
Review by Rob Young, The Wire, May 2011
THE LYDIAN Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organisation is seldom invoked these days, but jazz composer George Russell's theoretical attempt to lift jazz up and away ...
Tubby Hayes: Tubby Hayes: A Man In A Hurry (dir. Mark Baxter and Lee Cogswell)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Stewart Smith, The Wire, January 2016
EDWARD 'TUBBY' HAYES has been hailed as Britain's greatest tenor saxophonist, a musician who, in the words of poet Michael Horowitz, "could play just about ...
Rhythm & Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain: Two Temple Place, London
Review by John L. Walters, Eye, 25 February 2018
Rhythm & Reaction gets under the skin of a British love affair with American jazz 27 January — 22 April 2018 ...
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 ...
Ray Mantilla: 22 June 1934–21 March 2020
Obituary by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, 8 April 2020
The great percussionist and bandleader Ray Mantilla died on 21 March aged 85 at New York's Columbia University Medical Center due to complications of lymphoma ...
Yvette Janine Jackson: Freedom (Fridman Gallery)
Review by John Lewis, The Guardian, 15 January 2021
The composer’s two new works, exploring slavery and homophobia, are like immersive non-visual films ...
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