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

4732 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

4739 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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Ken Kesey's Magic Trip: Merry Pranksters redux

4753 days ago

Guardian Music — Footage of Ken Kesey's 1964 LSD road trip has finally been edited into a (mostly) coherent filmIn 1964 Ken Kesey embarked on a coast-to-coast-and-back road trip, spreading the word of LSD with a busload of costumed cohorts; it is the stuff of pop-cu... more info

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The Necks – review

4757 days ago

Guardian Music — Bishopsgate Centre, LondonYou can generate all kinds of similes listening to The Necks: a picture gallery, an urban landscape, the surface of the moon. But the metaphor that sprang to mind for their latest appearance, at the London Jazz festival, was... more info

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London Jazz Festival: saxophone shows its star appeal

4764 days ago

Guardian Music — Steve Coleman, Steve Williamson and Chris Potter reveal instrument's depths and variationsIn deference to the ways of the world, the London Jazz Festival might have cannily foregrounded pop-oriented singers in its opening days – but the real star h... more info

Ornette Coleman Ronnie Scott Courtney Pine John Coltrane

Marc Ribot Trio – review

4777 days ago

Guardian Music — Bishopsgate Centre, LondonBoth power trio and a supergroup that spans three generations, expectations were high for this soldout concert. Drummer Chad Taylor was a lynchpin of the Chicago Underground scene and lineups that joined the dots between pos... more info

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Louis Hayes Cannonball Legacy Band – review

4789 days ago

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, London"People do this kind of thing all the time," New York alto saxophonist Vincent Herring told Tuesday night's full house at Ronnie Scott's. He was talking about legacy jazz groups, celebrating long-gone stars. "But you can't do it... more info

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Sonny Rollins: On Impulse!/There Will Never Be Another You – review Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Lady Sinner/Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus – review

4795 days ago

Guardian Music — (Impulse/Universal)It's the 50th birthday of Impulse Records, one of the most famous of all jazz labels – and famously home to John Coltrane for six years. The upcoming London Jazz festival celebrates with a concert on 12 November featuring pianist... more info

Charles Mingus Sonny Rollins John Coltrane Keith Jarrett

The symphony and the novel – a harmonious couple?

4804 days ago

Guardian Music — The symphony and the novel evolved in tandem for two centuries. Music moved on after modernism, but whatever happened to fiction?The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and de... more info

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My favourite album: Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk

4839 days ago

Guardian Music — Guardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, John Fordham examines the brilliant corners of Thelonious MonkWhen I was discovering jazz as a student, Thelonious Monk seemed to epito... more info

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

Nat Birchall: Sacred Dimension – review

Ken Kesey's Magic Trip: Merry Pranksters redux

The Necks – review

London Jazz Festival: saxophone shows its star appeal

Marc Ribot Trio – review

Louis Hayes Cannonball Legacy Band – review

Sonny Rollins: On Impulse!/There Will Never Be Another You – review Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Lady Sinner/Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus – review

The symphony and the novel – a harmonious couple?

My favourite album: Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk

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