Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water – The Gospel of James BaldwinSimon Adams - 25 September 2024 ...

Nightmare In The Pacific: The World War II Saga Of Artie Shaw And His Navy Band ...

Continuing from where the fine 1992 recording You Never Know (ECM 1497) left off, Time Being features a range of intelligently turned, emotionally compelling compositions by Erskine and Taylor. Kenny ...

Nicole Mitchell is a renowned flautist and former chair of the AACM. Ballaké Sissoko an innovative kora player from Mali. Both are esteemed composers and both have defied convention in their ...

Despite Beatlemania and the Swinging Sixties fizzing all around it, the London jazz scene at that time was full of young bands determinedly getting themselves together. Group Sounds Five was one of ...

Portrait Of A Romantic; On Hubbard’s Hill; Not Love Perhaps; Levitation; Undernote (23.18) – The Wanderer; Roundelay; The Wizzard’s Song (19.39) John Surman (bcl/r/ss/bar/syn). Recorded Oslo, Norway, ...

Nobody can accuse British jazz musicians of being unadventurous. And an unbiased listen to this recording by Bill Le Sage’s Directions In Jazz Unit reveals that suc­cessful jazz can happen anywhere.

Billy Bang was a tunnel rat in the Vietnam War. Armed with just a flashlight and pistol his role was to engage and eliminate North Vietnamese soldiers underground. On coming home to New York, Bang was ...