CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES!
Rhino Records has announced that a substantial box set honouring the work of the legendary jazz bassist and composer CHARLES MINGUS is on the horizon and slated for a late June release. It is...
BY GEORGE!
Jazz Giant George Coleman Talks About Smalls Jazz Club, Max Roach, and Miles Davis “I’m trying to retire but I can’t!” exclaims tenor saxophone legend George Coleman, who then breaks into a soft, throaty...
MILES DAVIS QUINTET: ‘Workin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet’ (OJC/Craft Recordings)
One of the most influential groups in jazz history, the Miles Davis Quintet created some of the most remarkable music of the mid to late 1950s. Although Davis, as the band’s leader was its...
IT’S BLOSSOM TIME!
Renowned for her delicate baby girl voice and conversational approach to singing, the delightful Blossom Dearie (1924-2009) was a unique American jazz singer and pianist whose famous admirers ranged from jazz icon Miles Davis...
JAZZ GIANT CAPTURED AT SMALLS
One of the last survivors from jazz’s golden age, George Coleman is not going gently into that good night, as the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas once so eloquently put it. At 88, the Memphis-born...
VARIOUS ARTISTS: ‘Mainstream Funk’ (We Want Sounds)
Founded in 1964 by a pioneering New York record producer called Bob Shad, whose main claim to fame was establishing the jazz-oriented EmArcy imprint at Chicago’s Mercury Records, Mainstream was home in the late-’60s...
KHAN JAMAL: ‘Infinity’ (Jazz Room)
Original copies of this highly collectable album, first released via the small indie label Jambrio in 1984, can exchange hands for almost four figures but now thanks to the UK’s enterprising Jazz Room label,...
BARBARA THOMPSON: Journey To A Destination Unknown (Jazz In Britain, £26.99)
I’m sure I’m not alone in regarding Barbara Thompson as one of the greatest musicians the British Isles has produced. A virtuoso jazz saxophonist and flautist as well as a prolific composer, Thompson’s appeared...
JANETTE & JEAN
Acclaimed British pianist Janette Mason follows up her recent single ‘Starman’ by issuing on February 19th 2021 another track from her forthcoming ‘Wall To Wall Bowie’ EP. It’s a unique interpretation of David Bowie’s...
