Guardian Music — (Zig Zag Territoires)The antecedents of this recording (an academic study that took French saxophonist Imbert to New York to investigate spiritual influences in jazz) might suggest a rather more long-faced outcome than this exuberant trio set, which ... more info

Guardian Music — (Gondwana)By restricting himself to his home patch on the northern jazz circuit, saxophonist Nat Birchall is not as acclaimed across the UK as he deserves. His debut album, Sixth Sense, was hailed by Mojo magazine, in a John Coltrane reference, for ... more info

Pitchfork — Let's say you've already worked your way through all 70 discs of The Complete Columbia Album Collection, the comically huge Miles Davis box set that Columbia/Legacy released last year. Yet somehow still want more Miles Davis. It's possible! People li... more info

All About Jazz — TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Swing Journal, a long-standing monthly magazine that has led the jazz culture of postwar Japan, is being suspended with its July edition that goes on sale on June 19, mainly due to dwindling advertisement revenues, its publisher said... more info

All About Jazz — THE NEW SCHOOL JOHN COLTRANE REPERTORY ENSEMBLE Directed by Reggie Workman Mon., May 17, 2010 7pm @ THE NEW SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SPACE 5th Floor 55 W. 13TH Street, NYC (betw. 6th and 5th Aves.) FREE! For further information, please contact: 212-229-589... more info

Guardian Music — Though he had recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, it was from early 1956 that Sonny Rollins really took off …When the magic of jazz first touched me in the late 1960s, many pathfinding early creators of the music... more info

Guardian Music — (Decca)Concord Music has remastered and reissued a set of jazz landmarks from the Original Jazz Classics catalogue – with highlights including Thelonious Monk's short but sensational relationship with John Coltrane, Art Pepper's encounter with Mile... more info

Guardian Music — Game-changing Cosmogramma album inspried by mescaline, DMT and out of body experiences"There are things I've seen and experienced in this world – things they don't talk about in too many books," says Steve Ellison. "I'm not even talking about ... more info

Guardian Music — The high priest of improv's 1956 album Brilliant Corners is a remarkable insight into his wayward musical mindThe New Yorker critic Whitney Balliett once described Thelonious Monk's idiosyncratic timing and unexpected resolutions as feeling like "mis... more info

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