Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk Deluxe Edition (Atlantic R2 670841/RHINO 603497842384, released 20 May. Album review by Leonard Weinreich)When some empty head on TV exclaims “I’m going to raise my […]
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note. Album Review by Adam Sieff) This really is quite a find. In early 1961 a […]
The 40th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections comes from Art Blakey’s late line-up of stars in the making. This album, with its teasingly ambiguous title (is it your album of the year, […]
On Monday 16 November at 12:30pm, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is livestreaming “The Magic of Art Blakey”, a tribute to the legendary jazz figure from an octet directed by Peter Johnstone. […]
Keith Jarrett: A Biography. Wolfgang Sandner (author)/ Chris Jarrett (translator) (Equinox Books. 230pp. Book Review by John Bungey) With the great American pianist announcing that his performing career is almost certainly over, […]
