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Shabaka Hutchings At Barbican Hall
By Chris May | Live ReviewMay 13, 2024
London's Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary open-the-gates work on tenor saxophone with Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and the South African-based Shabaka & the Ancestors. But his April 2024 album...
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Building Back Jazz Brick by Brick in East London
By Peter Jones | Live ReviewMay 2, 2024
The most innovative and thrilling jazz currently emerging from the UK is centred on a few grimy, narrow streets on the east side of London. The pioneering work that goes on in this elaborately-graffitied neighbourhood...
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Ahmad Jamal: An American Classic
By Chuck Lenatti | ProfileApril 30, 2024
Frederick Russell Jones was born on July 2, 1930, to a working-class family in Pittsburgh. His friends called him Fritz. As a boy, he delivered newspapers to Billy Strayhorn's family. He converted to Islam around 1950 and took the name Ahmad Jamal.
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Does Jazz History Weigh Too Heavily on Today’s Practitioners?
By Ian Patterson | The Big QuestionApril 24, 2024
It is no outlandish claim to say that jazz is obsessed with its past--just look at the number of tribute albums, songs and concerts inspired by the music's forbearers, or at the never-ending stream of historical reissues.
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Lorne Lofsky: Steward of the Canadian Guitar Tradition
By John Chacona | InterviewApril 17, 2024
Guitarist Lorne Lofsky rocketed to fame when It Could Happen To You (Pablo Records, 1981), his debut release as a leader, was produced by fellow Canadian...
