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Nick Evans

Born: January 9, 1947

Mujician: Keith Tippett – The Authorised Biography by Martin Phillips

by Mark McKergow
June 13, 2026

Mujician: Keith Tippett--The Authorised Biography Martin Phillips 325 Pages ISBN: 978 1916320697 Jazz In Britain 2026 Pianist, composer, improviser, and educator Keith Tippett (1947--2020) was a truly original voice in jazz. Born in Bristol, England, to a policeman father and Irish mother, he remained closely connected to his roots in southwest England. He is ...

Una gemma Soft Machine per il quarantennale Cuneiform

by Mario Calvitti
August 13, 2024

Non sono molte le etichette indipendenti che possono permettersi di festeggiare il quarantesimo anniversario dalla loro fondazione; ancora meno quelle che possono parimenti fregiarsi di un catalogo di tutto rispetto, ricco di artisti e opere di livello assoluto. È questo il caso della Cuneiform Records, con sede a Silver Spring nel Maryland fondata nel 1984 da ...

Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69

By Graham Collier

Label: My Only Desire Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Burblings For Bob; Molewrench Intro; Molewrench; Lullabye For A Lonely Child Intro; Lullabye For A Lonely Child; Down Another Road Intro; Down Another Road; The Barley Mow Intro; The Barley Mow; Aberdeen Angus Intro; Aberdeen Angus.

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

by Chris May
March 7, 2023

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 ...

Soft Machine: Facelift France and Holland

by Maurizio Comandini
May 30, 2022

Sotto l'ombrello robusto chiamato Soft Machine si nascondono in realtà parecchie band. All'inizio l'interesse del gruppo, nato nel 1966 in quel di Canterbury (anche se loro non vogliono essere considerati come esponenti del cosiddetto Canterbury Sound), era per una sorta di pop-rock patafisico, che poi ha iniziato a dilatarsi verso la psichedelia, il rock progressivo, il ...

Keith Tippett: 100 Best Foots Forward

by Duncan Heining
June 20, 2020

From the Albert Hall at twenty-two with a fifty-piece band to picking potatoes to make ends meet a decade later, Keith Tippett's life in music could sum up many a jazz career. After a grim '80s, things now look better for the composer, pianist and bandleader. “What I'm about to say is ridiculous but it was ...

King Crimson: Sailors' Tales 1970-1972

by John Kelman
November 11, 2017

If it's a fundamental truth that adversity can sometimes bring the absolute best, creatively speaking, out of music and the people who make it, then the roughly 23 months following the release of King Crimson's classic 1969 debut, In the Court of the Crimson King (Island)--and, after a single North American tour, the breakup of its ...

Julie Tippetts: Didn't You Used To Be Julie Driscoll?

by Duncan Heining
December 7, 2016

The respect in which Julie Tippetts is held by her fellow musicians and fans is truly heartening--and truly deserved. Back in the late sixties, then Julie Driscoll, she gave up a very different career trajectory in music, one that had begun with Steampacket and continued with Brian Auger & The Trinity, to follow a journey characterised ...

Intervista a Roberto Bellatalla

by Daniele Vogrig
September 12, 2016

Se i concetti di fraternità e universalità da sempre caratterizzano il jazz in tutte le sue forme, senza dubbio e a buon diritto Roberto Bellatalla ne può essere considerato uno dei massimi ambasciatori. Amsterdam, Londra, Johannesburg. Quaranta anni di storia (e di storie), poi il ritorno a casa. Ammesso e non concesso che ...