Wadada Leo Smith – Emerald Duets / String Quartets Nos. 1-12 (two boxsets)(TUM Records. Review by Olie Brice) The Finnish record label TUM has been doing an impressive job of documenting Wadada […]
Variety (*) is reporting that a new film, ‘Music for Black Pigeons’, by Danish directors Andreas Koefoed and Jørgen Leth will have its premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week. The […]
Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, Enrico Rava – 2 Blues for Cecil (TUM Records. TUM CD 059. Album Review by Olie Brice) 2 Blues for Cecil – the first recording of the trio of […]
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The News (ECM 3520703. CD review by Jon Turney) This superb follow up to the great drummer Andrew Cyrille’s 2016 quartet release The Declaration of Musical Independence reunites […]
“An incredible and important album in jazz history” is pianist Rick Simpson’s assessment of The Printmakers (1985), Geri Allen’s debut album as leader. In this feature Rick writes about Geri Allen, the […]
