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Graham Collier: Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69

Read "Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69" reviewed by Chris May


In 1969, when the composer and bassist Graham Collier took his sextet to Stockholm Jazz Days to give a live performance of their album Down Another Road (Fontana, 1969), the presence of a British band onstage at a European jazz festival was exceptional. The idea that British musicians would one day have their names on the marquee at US festivals, as Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and Nubya Garcia have in the 2020s, would have been regarded as ...

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Harry Miller's Isipingo: Which Way Now

Read "Which Way Now" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Isipingo è stato certamente uno dei gruppi inglesi degli anni settanta meno documentato su disco. Un progetto molto interessante, certamente figlio dei gruppi misti che si crearono sin dalla metà degli anni sessanta a Londra con il coinvolgimento di musicisti locali e musicisti provenienti dal Sudafrica. L'esempio più noto è rappresentato dalla 'Brotherhood of Breath' di Chris McGregor, una delle big band più eccitanti di tutta la storia del jazz. Il leader di Isipingo era Harry Miller, bassista sudafricano emigrato ...


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