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Andrew Hill: Andrew!!!
by Nic Jones
Trying to locate a “primary genre" for Andrew Hill's music is no easy task, not least because--like Monk, Herbie Nichols, and Pee Wee Russell--his music is so resolutely his own that the only frame of reference that can be applied to it is the music of the individual. Hill produced a body of recordings for Blue ...
Edmond Hall: Petite Fleur
by Nic Jones
This reissue raises issues about “the tradition"--whatever the hell that is. This music was slightly venerable when it was recorded back in 1959, but the sheer verve and aplomb with which the program is delivered makes questions about its place in the overall canon of jazz seem immaterial. At the time of the recording, Edmond Hall ...
Graham Collier: Workpoints
by Nic Jones
With the often dubious benefit of hindsight it's possible to see bassist/composer/bandleader Graham Collier as something of a catalyst in the British jazz scene of the late 1960s and 1970s. The two discs here certainly lend substance to that impression, bringing together two different bands, with only Collier himself and trumpeter/flugelhornist Harry Beckett common to both, ...
Eric Dolphy: A Deeply Dedicated Musician
by Nic Jones
In the forty years since his death Eric Dolphy's career has taken on a kind of substance that it never had in his lifetime. Partly this is due to the course jazz has taken within those forty years, one of the end results of which is a scene that in many ways is more conservative now ...
Condon's Mobs: Wild Bill Davison & Bud Freeman
by Nic Jones
As an art form jazz has thrived in a number of different environments, and the school of the music that came to fruition under the ostensible stewardship of Eddie Condon, a man whose abilities as a raconteur were at least on a par with his abilities as a guitarist, amounted to a freewheeling brand of the ...
Allison Neale & Bruce Turner: Across The Years
by Nic Jones
The alto sax has always been a horn that can accomodate a variety of approaches. The two players discussed here, as featured on albums recorded at completely different stages in their respective careers, have sounds and styles deeply rooted in the history of the music For years Bruce Turner was a stalwart of Humphrey Lyttleton's band, ...
Art Pepper: West Coastin'
by Nic Jones
The last article in this series discussed the most significant strand in the recording history of Sonny Criss , a musician who was unjustly neglected during his lifetime. By contrast, Art Pepper might have been overexposed during his. If so, then this was a process helped in no small part by his autobiography1 in which he ...
Charlie Rouse: Hail The Individual
by Nic Jones
Every significant development in jazz has been the work of trailblazers. In the case of bebop of course the two most readily associated with the development have always been Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and whilst there is no little substance in this, the determinism of such a view obscures the contributions of other musicians who ...
Sonny Criss: Catching The Sun
by Nic Jones
There have sometimes been itinerant qualities to the jazz musician's life, not only in terms of where they've lived, but also where and when they recorded. Sonny Criss spent the best part of his life in Los Angeles, and the sad fact is that the devotion he showed not only to the city and its people ...
Rendell-Carr & Keith Tippett: Ever Increasing Circles
by Nic Jones
In the early 1960s things were happening. In that seminal decade, the allure of which remains so great that people not even born at the time can feel vicarious nostalgia for it, both British and European jazz produced instrumentalists with the ability and know-how to establish themselves as distinctive voices within an ever-widening continuum of jazz. ...
