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InterviewElina Duni & Rob Luft: Songs Of Love And Exile
The British guitarist Rob Luft has already released one of the great albums of 2020 with Life Is The Dancer (Edition), which came out back in the spring. Now Luft notches up another 2020 highlight with the collaborative Lost Ships (ECM), jointly conceived and co-led with the Albanian-Swiss singer Elina Duni.
By Chris May
November 30, 2020 -
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Website NewsGiving Thanks & Sharing the Jazz Love
As always, we're celebrating Thanksgiving by recognizing two very important groups of people: our fund drive supporters who helped make much of the 2020 website improvements possible and our staff...
By Michael Ricci
November 26, 2020 -
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Building a Jazz LibraryYusef Lateef: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Blowing Cultural Nationalism Out Of...
A pioneer of global and modal jazz, the multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef is only beginning to have his importance in the history of the music properly acknowledged. After languishing off-catalogue for decades, much of his output is being made available once more. A treasure trove of...
By Chris May
November 18, 2020 -
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InterviewPatrick Cornelius: From ECM to Acadia National Park
With a persistently active live and equally dynamic release schedule in his back pocket, alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius continues to push the boundaries of the straight-ahead approach to jazz into a more modern context. Since his first recording as a leader—2006's self-released Lucid Dream featuring a cast of...
By Friedrich Kunzmann
November 17, 2020 -
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InterviewMatthew Halsall: A New Dawn
After five years without the release of any newly recorded material, the British trumpeter and composer Matthew Halsall has returned in winter 2020 with a fresh new band and a sparkling new album, Salute To The Sun, on his Gondwana Records label.
By Chris May
November 16, 2020
