This week’s edition of Mondays with Morgan is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and Ray Gallon, a revered pianist, composer and arranger who has worked with a number of leading […]
Ron Carter Foursight Quartet(Cadogan Hall. November 2023. EFG LJF. Review by AJ Dehany) There’s a philosophy to bass playing. If Albert Camus was a goalie, a supportive role with room to dream, […]
Pocket Jazz is a new online jazz course created by Arizona-based trombonist and Music Savvy founder Michael Lake. It aims to deepen a musician’s understanding of some of the more complex aspects […]
Walking the Changes: Legends of Double Bass in Jazz (Film documentary directed and produced by Nick Wells. Review by Mary James) A labour of love, almost by definition, takes a long time […]
Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller – In Harmony (Resonance Records HCD-2060. Review by Leonard Weinreich) Mainly dependent on inspired improvisation, jazz music is ephemeral stuff. Unrecorded performances evaporate into the ether never to […]
The nineteenth of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE) shows the power of simplicity. This Joe Henderson live set reminded many that one of the jazz royalty was still at the peak […]
Pianist Jonathan Gee has always found joy, education and inspiration in the music of Miles Davis. Not just in the man himself but in the playing of his many fine associates, not […]
A brand new series of livestreams from Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey starts tomorrow, Saturday 14 November 2020. An all-star quartet (Ron Carter, Joe Lovano, Isaiah J. Thompson and […]
