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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jamie Baum Septet, Marquis Hill, Chien Chien Lu and Jim Rotondi

by Hobart Taylor
August 7, 2024

New music from the Jamie Baum Septet, trumpeter Marquis Hill's genre-busting celebration Composers Collective, a couple of jams from vibraphonist Chien Chien Lu and remembering trumpeter Jim Rotondi with music from his last release, Finesse. Playlist Ellen Andrea Wang “Hummingsong" from Closeness II (Ropeadope) 0:00 Ezéchiel Pailhès “Ventas Rumba 10 Flat Feet" from Ventas ...

Article: Live Review

Whiplash In Concert At Barbican Hall

by Chris May
July 8, 2024

Multiquarium Big Band Barbican Hall Whiplash in ConcertLondon July 4, 2024 Studying at a music conservatoire can stifle an aspiring young jazz musician, and to inhabit for a moment the world of the Whiplash baddie Professor Terence Fletcher, there are times when one might wish it stifled more of ...

News: Video / DVD

Backgrounder: Sidney Bechet/Martial Solal

December 23, 2023

Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of jazz's most complex giants. Born in New Orleans in 1897, four years earlier than Louis Armstrong, Bechet made his first recordings in early 1920, three years before the trumpeter. Unfortunately, these recordings were never issued. His first released recordings, for Okeh, came out the same year as Armstrong's earliest ...

News: Video / DVD

Martial Solal Trio Recordings, 1953-1962

December 21, 2023

Martial Solal was born in Algiers in 1927, when the city was part of what was known then as French Algeria. At 6, he began taking piano lessons and for years played classical pieces. Then he discovered the extraordinary recordings of Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum, and turned to jazz. Solal moved to Paris in 1950 ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Bill Evans / Chet Baker / Sonny Stitt: Cold Case Investigations Strike Gold

by Chris May
April 11, 2023

Jazz detective Zev Feldman and Elemental Records have notched up more cold-case discoveries with albums by Bill Evans, Chet Baker and Sonny Stitt. The discs are scheduled for release in late April 2023, round about Record Store Day. None of the material has previously been available. All three albums are more than good and the Evans ...

Article: Live Review

Tommy Halferty, Cormac O'Brien, Greg Felton At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
April 7, 2023

Tommy Halferty, Cormac O'Brien, Greg Felton Scott's Jazz Club Jazz In The Round Belfast, N. Ireland March 31, 2023 Sergei Rachmaninoff surely wouldn't have minded. As Chamber Choir Ireland was tackling the Russian composer's choral masterpiece All Night Vigil in a Belfast monastery, across town in Ballyhackamore another ...

Album

Martial Solal Live in Ottobrunn

By Martial Solal

Label: GLM Music EC 607-2
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1 My Funny Valentine; Histoire de Blues; Tea For Two; Caravan; I'll Remember April; Brother Jack; Lover Man; Cherokee CD2 Improvisation; Coming Yesterday; Happy Birthday; Here's That Rainy Day; Round Midnight; Koln Duet; My One And Only Love

Album

The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings

By Wes Montgomery

Label: Jazzline Classics
Released: 2021
Track listing: West Coast Blues; Four On Six; Last Of The Wine; Here’s That Rainy Day; Opening 2; Blue Grass; Blue Monk; The Leopard Walks; Twisted Blues; West Coast Blues (Encore).

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Coming Yesterday: Live At Salle Gaveau 2019

By Martial Solal

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Can’t Get Started; Coming Yesterday: Medley Ellington; Sir Jack; Tea For Two; Happy Birthday; Lover Man: I’ll Remember April; My Funny Valentine; Have You Met Miss Jones.

News: Music Industry

The MPS Records legacy resumes with vinyl releases of Ella Fitzgerald’s 'Sunshine Of Your Love' and Freddie Hubbard’s'The Hub of Hubbard'

June 16, 2021

Jazz history was forged in the rustic Black Forest of Germany in 1968 when Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer launched MPS Records and recorded some of the genre’s seminal artists. Legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, The Count Basie Orchestra and George Duke released albums on the prestigious label known for its ...