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Mike Osborne Trio: The Birmingham Jazz Concert – review

4959 days ago
Guardian Music(Cadillac)Mike Osborne was one of the most adventurous saxophonists to emerge from the transitional 1960s/70s period in British jazz – after the strict harmonic rules of bebop were transformed by the free jazz of Ornette Coleman. Osborne worked in ... more info

Andy Bey :: River Man (Nick Drake)

4970 days ago
Aquarium DrunkardJohn Coltrane’s favorite vocalist, Andy Bey made his name in the 60s and 70s honing his chops with the likes of Gary Bartz and Horace Silver. Tall company. Bey’s 1998 album, Shades of Bey, is comprised of interpretive covers including a dark rea... more info

Lila Downs a singer without borders

4980 days ago
Chicago TribuneLila Downs’ music is a lot like her upbringing: threads of seemingly unrelated cultures woven into an exotic, ever-shifting hybrid. She’s done everything from studying anthropology to dropping out of school to follow the Grateful Dead. She was a ... more info

Atlantic Records founder bequeaths £26m to Oxford University students

4981 days ago
Guardian MusicAhmet Ertegun and widow, Mica, to fund graduate scholarships in biggest donation for humanities students in university's historyOxford University has announced a gift amounting to £26m from the late founder of Atlantic Records and his widow.Some of ... more info

Gilles Peterson Worldwide 2012-02-01 with Tall Black Guy

5008 days ago
Core NewsJust testing if this works… “This week Gilles has Detroit/Chicago beat-maker Tall Black Guy swinging by, giving a run-down of his top 5 samples of all time, touching on Michael Jackson, Kool & The Gang and John Coltrane, whilst dipping into his o... more info

Soundtrack of my life

5012 days ago
Guardian MusicThe former Doors guitarist talks about discovering rock'n'roll, blues and jazz and his memories of recording with Jim MorrisonRobby Krieger was 18 years old when he joined the Doors, the seminal psychedelic rock band known for their hard living and w... more info

Old music: Derek and the Dominos – Layla

5017 days ago
Guardian MusicThe secret of Layla's greatness isn't just in the guitar line or the piano coda – it's in Tom Dowd's innovative productionLaunched into the stratosphere with arguably (or, in my opinion, indisputably) the greatest opening riff in the history of roc... more info

Sam Rivers

5042 days ago
Guardian MusicInfluential American jazz multi-instrumentalist who remained at the cutting edgeThe multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers, who has died aged 88, was one of the last messengers from the 1940s bebop era and the classic decades of jazz. Accomplished on tenor... more info

Brad Meldhau: The Art of the Trio Recordings 1996-2001 – review

5056 days ago
Guardian Music(Nonesuch)When a classically trained young piano improviser called Brad Mehldau emerged in the mid-1990s, he quickly established a patient, subtle and richly contrapuntal approach that took jazz piano-trio improvisation to a new level. Warner Brother... more info

Nat Birchall: Sacred Dimension – review

5063 days ago
Guardian Music(Gondwana)Saxophonist Nat Birchall is a John Coltrane admirer whose quicker pieces tend to sound like Coltrane's famous account of My Favourite Things, and his ballads like the sax-guru's haunting tone poem Naima. Ancient World, the opening track of... more info

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