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Monty Sunshine obituary

5100 days ago
Guardian MusicJazz clarinettist with the Chris Barber band which had a huge 1959 hit with Petite FleurRevered by traditionalist fans the world over, the jazz clarinettist Monty Sunshine, who has died aged 82, achieved his greatest fame while a member of the 1950s... more info

Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers: Chucho's Steps – review

5104 days ago
Guardian Music(World Village)This year, on a visit to Ronnie Scott's, the great Cuban pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés seemed too big for the room. He rocketed through jazz piano history, with classical music and Duke Ellington flicks and hints, and a balance... more info

Brubecks Play Brubeck – review

5106 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonFew jazz musicians make it into the pop charts, even fewer for instrumental music of such coolly labyrinthine grooves that audiences could barely shake a leg to it. California-born pianist and composer Dave Brubeck – who did a... more info

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Rare Dizzy Gillespie Live Recording Discovered

5121 days ago
All About JazzYou Won't Believe It! A Fantastic Never Before Released Dizzy Gillespie Recording Has Been Discovered That Will Leave You Breathless As It Captures Dizzy At His Best In Front Of A Live Audience! New York, NY—Jazz fans will be delighted when the... more info

London jazz festival – review

5122 days ago
Guardian MusicVarious venuesThe fight through teeming crowds to get to Herbie Hancock's Royal Festival Hall show suggested that the 2010 London jazz festival was breaking all records – until I pondered whether the Lord Mayor's South Bank fireworks might have a... more info

Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood and the rise in British jazz

5125 days ago
Guardian MusicBy the 60s, British jazz no longer sounded like an American clone. Among the works that took the genre to new heights, Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood still reigns supremeWhen Wynton Marsalis appeared at a Barbican tribute concert to the late Sir John ... more info

Tubby Hayes: Three Classic Albums Plus | CD review

5130 days ago
Guardian Music(Avid)The real star turn here is the live album recorded by the Jazz Couriers in February 1958. Billed as the support act to Dave Brubeck, this band, co-led by the twin tenor saxophones of Hayes and Ronnie Scott, stole the show. Listen to the phenome... more info

Jason Moran – review

5132 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonJason Moran, the 35-year-old virtuoso jazz pianist and composer from Houston, often takes his listeners on a century-spanning slideshow of African-American and European-classical music – but he splices the elements with such a... more info

Jason Moran at Ronnie Scott's, review

5134 days ago
The TelegraphThe young American jazz pianist Jason Moran reaches places his British contemporaries can't. Rating: * * * * more info

Neon Quartet: Catch Me | CD review

5139 days ago
Guardian Music(Edition)This group played at the Brit Jazz fortnight at Ronnie Scott's in the summer, and it was a delightful surprise – considering the rather restrained chamber-music introversions of some of its former lives – to discover how purposefully hi... more info

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