
Saxophonist, composer and arranger to the stars John Altman has upcoming live shows Feature by John Bungey: The hidden man of music is emerging from the shadows. John Altman‘s career can read […]
Saxophonist, composer and arranger to the stars John Altman has upcoming live shows Feature by John Bungey: The hidden man of music is emerging from the shadows. John Altman‘s career can read […]
John Altman – Hidden Man: My Many Musical Lives (Equinox. 290pp. Book Review by John Bungey) Nope, me neither. Which is one reason why John Altman, prolific composer, conductor, arranger and player, […]
The first few months of 2022 will see quite a few new additions to the Equinox Books Jazz List, in the series Popular Music History. Series Editor is broadcaster, author and bassist […]
John Altman’s credit in the closing titles of the new James Bond movie reads ‘Studio One Conductor and Additional Arrangements.” Here he explains the back-story of how he put some big band […]
John Altman pays tribute to “one of the greatest arrangers in the history of popular music”, Jeremy Lubbock (1931-2021): Jeremy Lubbock, who passed away peacefully on Friday morning in Oxfordshire at the […]
John Altman writes: There was a time in the late 60s/early 70s when Malcolm Griffiths, who passed away this week aged 79, seemed to be everywhere on the world jazz scene. First […]