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The jazz-fusion sweet spot runs from 1969 to 1975, a period where electricity pushed and prodded its way ever further into the previously ex...

Albert Ayler once memorably noted that in terms of the saxophone '...John Coltrane was the father, Pharoah Sanders the son and I am the ...

I've felt a little all at sea these past couple of weeks. The small pile of records I picked up while in Edinburgh last month (including...

American composer and keyboardist Chick Corea passed away last Tuesday. If he'd done nothing else in his 79 years but be a part of the t...

The extraordinary 'Bitches Brew' by Miles Davis was released 50 years ago last week. It's particularly extraordinary because ...

Throughout long shifts in the supermarket over the weekend, I saw and heard things that caused my colleagues and I to wonder aloud what e...

Tyner and Trane The hugely influential jazz pianist McCoy Tyner passed away last week at the age of 81. His dense 60 year discography ...

Friday evening front row view After managing, one way or another, to miss Soft Machine in concert for the entire first half-century of ...

It's impossible to overstate the importance of Elvin Jones. The fact that he was behind the drums for the incendiary series of LPs pu...

Large swaths Blue Note's legendary back catalogue were re-issued as part of a deal with EMI in the mid-1980s. The label's roster ...

Miles and Reggie on stage Reggie Lucas, one of the two guitarists in Miles Davis' controversial 1972-75 band, died in New York last...

During a long career, Senegalese drummer Mor Thiam has played for Freddie Hubbard, Don Pullen and The World Saxophone Quartet amongst oth...

The most contemporary contribution to this series thus far comes from Sound Etiquette, a trio out of Oakland California who came together...

In his long career, guitarist Calvin Keys has played with many of the greats - Bobby Hutcherson, Ray Charles, Ahmad Jamal and Pharoah San...

For a long time, a very long time, I've wanted to introduce a Jazz series to these pages. I'm keenly aware that this might prove ...

If you think the music of saxophonist and multireedist Colin Stetson is a challenging listen, try watching him make it. Based in Ca...

'The Big Ones' by Ted Heath and His Music is an LP that I just couldn't leave behind when I spotted it lurking in a box a...

Late last Wednesday, I was very pleased to learn that Gogo Penguin's second LP, 'V2.0', had been shortlisted for the Mercury...

We're hitting the highway, heading down to our nation's capitol for a few days to hook up with the visiting New York contingent ...

Richard Williams, over at The Blue Moment , recently penned an interesting piece on the current crop of piano led jazz trios and, as a...