Jazz From Detroit
- 23 August 2019
Peter Vacher reviews Mark Stryker’s insightful book on the history of the Detroit music scene
Peter Vacher reviews Mark Stryker’s insightful book on the history of the Detroit music scene
The reputation of Tubby Hayes as one of the world’s top tenor saxophonists of the 1950s and 1960s is set to be fully restored with the welcome release of Grits, Beans and Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Sessions 1969. Stuart Nicholson navigates a...
Brian Priestley delves between the notes of Bob Crosby’s ‘South Rampart Street Parade’ (1937)
Vocalist and songwriter Julia Biel talks about the album that changed her life, Spirit Of Eden, by Talk Talk.
Bill Milkowksi charts the life and times of the legendary group on record
How did John Coltrane and Miles Davis get on? The odd couple, with contrasting personalities on and off the bandstand. But together the music they produced was peerless, says Ashley Kahn
London’s burgeoning new breed of genre-blind, rhythmically direct jazz musicians has been attracting youthful, multi-cultural audiences not seen in the UK for a generation, pioneering a radical and overdue shift in perception.
The 2019 Mercury Prize nominee Cassie Kinoshi and her SEED Ensemble take the wild sci-fi writings of Samuel R. Delaney as the foundation for their debut statement, Driftglass. Kinoshi spoke with Nick Hasted about the impact of Afro-futurism, poetry...
When Stuart Nicholson’s biography of Billie Holiday was published in the USA it was nominated a “Notable Book of the Year” by The New York Times Review of Books. Here, Nicholson reflects on the enduring artistry of the singer they called Lady Day,...
Thelonious Monk was an artist regarded by many as something of an outsider during his lifetime, but he was a man whose bold musical birthright now remains undeniable.
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