Results for "John Stevens"

John Stevens

Born: June 10, 1940

Kalaparusha, Bobby Sanabria, and Giorgio Gaslini

by Jerome Wilson
September 30, 2026

This episode highlights spiritual jazz from Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Latin jazz from the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band and solo piano from Giorgio Gaslini among other things.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 John Stevens Trio ...

Fridolin Blumer: Beyond Scope

by Mark Corroto
November 7, 2025

Are there norms in free improvisation? A better question might be: are there rules? Free improvisation has been called many things--instant composing, non-idiomatic improvisation, spontaneous composition, intuitive music--but no matter the name, the question of structure remains. To explore this, let's look beyond music to another art form: film. Specifically, the 1998 cult classic The Big ...

Song For Someone The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler

by Jack Kenny
March 15, 2025

Song For Someone The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler Brian Shaw and Nick Smart (Foreword by Dave Holland ) 509 Pages ISBN: # ISBN-13- 978-178179 Equinox Publishing Prising apart the complex nature of Kenny Wheeler is a worthwhile task. Wheeler lacked swagger, a swashbuckling attitude and arrogance. He said, “I ...

Derek Bailey, Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness

by Mark Corroto
July 15, 2024

Guitarist Derek Bailey never compromised his approach to music, but was he influenced and his sound affected by set, setting, and playing partners? Those new to Bailey's working method may posit his approach was inflexible and unaccommodating, while long-time listeners can identify how a playing partner can affect the guitarist's sound. With the force ...

Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star

by Chris May
March 18, 2024

Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star Chris Searle 394 Pages ISBN: 978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz In Britain 2024 Although Marxist-Leninist theory itself has proved to be, at best, a blind alley--and, at worst, in practice the enemy of the freedoms it claims to champion--writers from the Left ...

Music Farther Outside by Bill Shoemaker

by Jeff Schwartz
September 10, 2023

Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit and the Pandemic Bill Shoemaker 213 Pages ISBN: #9781538178775 Rowman & Littlefield 2023 Music Farther Outside is a sequel to two books. First, it is Bill Shoemaker's follow-up to his excellent Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Both ...

Trevor Watts' Original Drum Orchestra: The Art Is In The Rhythm Volume 2

by Chris May
July 13, 2023

A co-founder of London's pioneering Spontaneous Music Ensemble with drummer John Stevens in the mid 1960s, saxophonist Trevor Watts has straddled an unusually wide spectrum of genres. With SME he explored an area of free jazz which, in deliberate contrast to contemporary American adventurers such as Ornette Coleman or members of the Association for the Advancement ...

Detail - 90

By Frode Gjerstad

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Detail - 90A; Detail - 90B.

Inclusivity

By Tubby Hayes

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2021
Track listing: Disc One: Live At The 100 Club Set 1: Phase 1 – 5. Disc Two: Live At The 100 Club Set 2: Phase 6 – 8; Encore. Disc Three: Live At Grass Roots: Phase 1 – 6.