Jazz Journal - Jazz Journal
From the JJ archive Jazz Journal. An interesting mixture of sources here: R&B, blues, folk, rock and popular - and also some original material. To all the songs on this album Wilson brings a highly sophisticated and thoroughly professional attitude. Her singing voice, deep and cultivated, intriguingly blends confidence with intimacy.
JJ 10/64: The birth of the BBC’s Jazz 625 - Jazz Journal
Oct 23, 2024 · Sixty years ago Jazz Journal welcomed the arrival of BBCTV's Jazz 625 series, which would turn out to be historic. It's been variously reshown, but why not now in place of endless TOTP, Queen and Bowie reruns? First published in …
Lou Donaldson dies - Jazz Journal
1 day ago · The bebop turned soul-jazz saxophonist has died aged 98 after a career in jazz spanning over six decades. Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, known for his bebop and soul-jazz work, died 9 November, aged 98, apparently following complications from pneumonia. His family announced his passing and mentioned that a private service will be held.
Count me in… 09/21 - Jazz Journal
Sep 7, 2021 · Pandemic-type phenomena (i.e., nasty things coming out of the night), just added to the routine woes of unsung musicians in New Orleans when they took the form of Hurricane Katrina. Jazz musicians everywhere live often on the edge, with little job security and access to only sparse personal savings. The Covid-19 Musicians Emergency Fund was set ...
Review: the 68th Newport Jazz Festival - Jazz Journal
By Brian Payne. 12 August 2022. 4839. The 68th Newport Jazz Festival took place under blue skies and wall-to-wall sunshine from 29 to 31 July at Fort Adams State Park, Rhode Island. It’s the longest-running jazz festival in the world. As in previous years, the crowds waiting each morning by the harbour for the gates to open were welcomed by a ...
London Jazz Festival back to strength
Sep 18, 2021 · Photo by Andrés Pino. After a perforce quieter year in 2020 the EFG London Jazz Festival is largely back to strength this year, running 12-21 November with plenty of live shows. Among the many highlights are Julian Lage; Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodriguez Band; Archie Shepp & Jason Moran; John Scofield and Dave Holland duo; Eddie Henderson ...
Jazz in review: 2020 - Jazz Journal
Jan 5, 2021 · The good: New discoveries: The Majamisty Trio from Serbia, Dezron Douglas and Brandee Young in Harlem lockdown, Ian McGimpsey and Harrison Argatoff from Ontario, and – new to me, at least – Julia Hülsmann from Germany and the wondrous guitarist Mary Halvorson from Massachusetts. The continuing creative strength of Ahmad Jamal, Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids and Kahil El’Zabar, and the ...
The Good Vibe - an interview with Sérgio Mendes - Jazz Journal
2 days ago · The Good Vibe – an interview with Sérgio Mendes. In this interview republished by kind permission of Latino Life, the late Brazilian bossa master talks to Amaranta Wright about Rio in the 1960s and the musical strands that bind together bossa nova and jazz. Not only did he showcase bossa nova to the world, Sérgio Mendes personifies how you ...
They Shot The Piano Player - Jazz Journal
5 days ago · They Shot The Piano Player. Graphic novel investigates what happened to leading samba-jazz pianist Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior after he left his Buenos Aires hotel in March 1976 never to be seen again. Simply put this is the graphic novel version of the 2023 movie of the same name that centres around the disappearance of Brazilian ...
Talking The Groove – Jazz Words From The Morning Star
Jun 11, 2024 · Talking The Groove is accompanied by a two-CD album compiled by John Thurlow and Pete Woodman, of the publishers, Jazz In Britain. It illustrates some of the book’s themes and some of the musicians whose work Searle deals with in the book. There’s music by the John Stevens Septet, Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood Of Breath (and other McGregor ...