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Various Artists: A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971
by Peter Jones
Throughout the 1950s (and beyond), modernist British jazz musicians were in thrall to the American bebop stars they had been trying to emulate since the late 1940s. It was the pinnacle to which they aspired, and gradually their efforts lifted the overall standard of UK jazz. But by the early 1960s, the international success of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Animals and many others was having unexpected effects. Not only was the British pop invasion ...
Continue ReadingPepa P: Saxigon
by Matthew Wuethrich
What musical shapes have yet to be explored? Did the New Thing of the '60s contort jazz into all its possible forms, or was it merely formless as many critics have asserted? On Saxigon, Finnish saxophonist Pepa Päivinen and his quartet answer these questions with a thunderous NO. The title of the album, and most importantly the music, suggest a shape of jazz that marshals the raw fury and intense soundings of Coltrane, Ayler, Taylor and their progeny, yet retains ...
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