The only thing you could really expect from jazz in the noughties was the unexpectedJazz sounds different now; different from the way it sounded in the century that spawned it. It's not that over the last 10 years musicians have stopped improvising personal variations on the blues, or the indestructible songs of Cole Porter or Antônio Carlos Jobim. It certainly wasn't that the legacies of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman or John C...
Guardian Music — The only thing you could really expect from jazz in the noughties was the unexpectedJazz sounds different now; different from the way it sounded in the century that spawn... more info
Guardian Music — (Intakt)Virtuoso bassist and composer Barry Guy formed his London Jazz Composers Orchestra in the 1970s, with the ambitious objective of framing the then-new improvising ... more info
Guardian Music — (Enja)This is an intriguing and overlooked curiosity from the great arranger/composer Gil Evans (the modest magician who created such haunting orchestral settings for Mil... more info