Duke Ellington – Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1969 -1973 (The Lost Recordings TLR2204041. Album review by Len Weinreich) By their own admission, record companies are a clumsy, scatty and careless […]
In our growing series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, pianist Liam Noble writes about Duke Ellington as pianist: A […]
The 31st of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) sees an Ellington tune polished to a new lustre. The pianist and soprano saxophone player here were both immensely fertile artists. Yet something […]
Crouch End Festival Chorus will be performing Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert in a concert at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 17 July. In this preview feature, Russell Davies tells the story of how […]
John Rae – Uncouth And Without Form (Thick Records. Download only. Review by Patrick Hadfield) John Rae was central to the resurgence of the Scottish Jazz scene around the turn of the century, […]
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 […]
Jazz Generation: Matthew Barley, Omar Puente, Peter Edwards, BBC Concert Orchestra, Nu Civilisation Orchestra, StringTing. Conducted by Michael Seal and Edwards. Music by Misha Mullov-Abbado, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Bramwell Tovey (Queen Elizabeth Hall, […]
