Roseanna Vitro – Sing a Song of Bird (Skyline Records SKYP 2101. CD review by John Stevenson) On Sing a Song of Bird, four jazz vocal titans pay their respects to Charlie […]
Roseanna Vitro – ‘Sing a Song of Bird’
Henry Martin – ‘Charlie Parker, Composer’
Henry Martin – Charlie Parker, Composer (Oxford University Press Hardback 338pp. Book review by Andy Hamilton) The founder of bebop was born 100 years ago this year – an anniversary that for […]
Peter Jones (‘This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz’ to be published November 2020)
A new book by Peter Jones (*),This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz is published by Equinox later this month. Sebastian interviewed him: What do you see as […]
Django Bates – “Tenacity”
Django Bates – Tenacity (released 2 October) (Lost Marble. Review by John Bungey) At school in Lewisham, Django Bates was a Charlie Parker fan, which must have been a lonely pursuit in […]
Alto saxophone players mark the centenary of the birth of Charlie Parker
Sebastian writes: The centenary of Charlie Parker’s birth falls today, 29 August 2020. We asked alto saxophonists two questions: first to describe thoughts and feelings which the centenary evokes. The second, optional, […]
Django Bates (Belovèd, with Evan Parker, Wigmore Hall, 14 July)
Could Django Bates be about to say farewell to his long-standing Charlie Parker-dedicated project? If so, it won’t be before he joins his Belovèd trio to that other legendary jazz Parker, Evan, […]
