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David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut: Miles in Motion
by Ludovico Granvassu
The centennials of two giants like Miles Davis and John Coltrane have made 2026 a year awash in projects celebrating their legacies, from festivals and venues to record stores, magazines, and websites. Tribute fatigue inevitably ensued, because tributes can be a tricky business. Too often, they end up feeling self-serving, if not downright gimmicky. Just as ...
Emma-Jean Thackray on "Tutu"
by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. Often regarded as one of Miles Davis' most unmistakably '80s albums, Tutu (Warner Bros., 1986) is inseparable from its era-defining production. Strip away the gated drums and digital sheen, however, and another record emerges: one built on remarkably strong ...
Erik Truffaz and Antonio Lizana on "Sketches of Spain"
by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. Few Miles Davis albums are as deeply rooted in a specific place as Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960). Yet the Spain imagined by Davis and Gil Evans was always an outsider's vision--an inspired interpretation rather than an immersion in ...
Yazz Ahmed on "Bitches Brew"
by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. More than fifty years after its release, Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) still sounds like a leap into the unknown. It remains one of Miles Davis' boldest reinventions, a work whose influence extends well beyond jazz into electronic music, rock ...
Avishai Cohen on "Jack Johnson"
by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. More than a conventional studio album, Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1971) documents a creative process. Assembled by producer Teo Macero from long, exploratory sessions, it embraces spontaneity, interruption and reinvention as part of its very fabric. That openness ...
Hermon Mehari on "Kind of Blue"
by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. Few jazz albums carry the weight of Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959). Revered, endlessly analyzed and almost impossible to escape, it can seem untouchable. Yet precisely because it has become such a monument, it also raises an intriguing question: ...
Francesco Diodati: Making Room for the Unknown
by Angelo Leonardi
A central figure in Enrico Rava's groups for the past decade, Francesco Diodati is one of the most creative European guitarists of his generation. An eclectic artist, always open to new explorations, he has led two pivotal ensembles in contemporary Italian jazz, Neko and Yellow Squeeds. He has also been involved in countless projects, including those ...
Nicolas King: No bad Chords
by Sherry Rubel
Nicolas King was 17 when pianist and arranger Mike Renzi, whom Ella Fitzgerald called “the greatest accompanist in the world," told him over pizza in Rhode Island, “If you ever need someone to play for you, I'll play for you!" King called his bluff a month later, and for the next 14 years Renzi never left ...
Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
by Marco Iacoboni
Meeting Enrico Rava means stepping into a world of stories, musicians and memories spanning decades of jazz history. We met on the occasion of the release of Corners, the ECM album he recorded with his band, Fearless Five, and a very special guest, Joe Lovano. With so many anecdotes, encounters and digressions to draw ...
Fred Lipsius: The Blood, Sweat & Tears Sax Voice Still Resounds
by R.J. DeLuke
There's an alto saxophone sound that a huge percentage of the Baby Boom generation heard and enjoyed in the 1960s and into the 1970s, even though many may not have been jazz fans. And younger folks who appreciate great music and understand the value of sounds generated in that era have also heard the clean, quicksilver ...
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