Jazz Articles about Quinn Oulton

Quinn Oulton: Alexithymia

by Peter Jones
August 5, 2022

It was hardly a new sentiment: "Jazz is dead," proclaimed trumpet-player Theo Croker at a recent London gig. What he meant, of course, was that the word jazz is dead, a turn-off for the general public, and a millstone around the necks of those who try to make a living out of playing it. Why can't we just call it music? he wanted to know.This new album by British singer-composer-saxophonist-multi-instrumentalist Quinn Oulton asks the same question implicitly. In ...