Tag: Jazz column
New Free Jazz by Binker & Moses, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Halvorson. – Culture
One could write “Confessions of a Free Jazz Listener” about this column. Apart from the pretentious reference to literature, that would suit the subject well, because there is something intoxicating…
Jazz column: The single returns to jazz culture online
Once in a while, the internet is wonderfully old-fashioned. The return of the jazz single is such a phenomenon, even if it now plays a completely different role than it…
Jazz by Art Blakey: Blue Note releases new albums – Kultur
To understand why Art Blakey’s January 1961 tour of Japan was such an important step in his life, one has to go back briefly to his childhood and youth. He…
Saxophonist Kenny G in a duet with Stan Getz: Disturbance of the peace of the dead – culture
The American smooth jazz saxophonist Kenneth Bruce Gorelick has become one of the most commercially successful musicians to date under the stage name Kenny G within forty years. He was…
Jazz column with Emma-Jean Thackray, Brandee Younger, Brian Jackson – culture
It’s been a while since someone bragged that a work was the result of a drug intoxication. The drugs often didn’t go well, which is why they have long ceased…