Mutima Bassist Cecil McBee racked up numerous dates as an in-demand sideman to everyone from Chico Freeman and Andrew Hill to Pharoah Sanders and Elvin Jones, but only recorded eight albums as leader, ...
Landings Ingrid Jensen is a Canadian trumpet player much admired in North America as a prime mover of the all-female jazz ...
Gospel Music The latest album from vibraharpist Joel Ross is described in the publicity as a “sonic interpretation of the ...
Hace 40 años, Simon Adams estaba de acuerdo en que el diablo tiene todas las mejores melodías y felicitó a Puente por haber ...
Love Dance For me Woody Shaw will always embody the culmination of a trumpet lineage that starts with Dizzy Gillespie and ...
Music Inc Black lives mattered a lot in 1970s America. Myriad calls to attention included the Black Power movement and ...
Live At Nelsonica & Clothworkers Hall Guitarist, singer and composer Bill Nelson’s career began with Be Bop Deluxe, the rock ...
Fifty years ago, Alun Morgan marvelled at the power, accuracy and solo power (take a bow, Phil Todd) of an 'astonishingly ...
Laying aside his usual bass guitar in favour of a grand piano, Jack Bruce here teams up with organ­ist Bernie Worrell (one of George Clinton’s main sidekicks in Parliament/Funkadelic) for a set of ...
One of the leading innovators of the sixties is back with a new Verve contract, but the origins of his singular style remain obscure. Mark Gilbert searches for more clues. You were born in Newark on ...
The ingredients of this music are familiar, but in the hands of Paula Gardiner and her fine group of musicians they acquire a compelling new impetus. While her instrumental work (mostly on bass) is ...