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Robert Glasper interview: Jazz, hip hop and the Experiment
To some, jazz and hip hop are kindred spirits; the cultural output of deprived black America. To others, modern hip hop’s chart domination and the jazz industry’s comparative demise means they’re more...
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Detroit Bop: Jazz in the Motor City
“In Detroit,” Pepper Adams once said, “the standards were so high that to compete for local gigs you had to really play awful goddamn good! If you were good enough to be competitive in Detroit, you...
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John & Alice Coltrane – Cosmic Music
John Coltrane (1926-1967) needs little introduction, a revolutionary figure of the avant-garde jazz scene and a damn good saxophonist. The man has been heralded far and wide but the titles of two of...
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Sounds of the Universe, London
Sitting in the heart of London’s Soho, record shop Sounds Of The Universe, also home of Soul Jazz Records and sister labels Universal Sound and World Audio Foundation, for over 20 years has been...
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Miles Davis –“Pangaea”
Pangaea is the last recording of Miles’ electric 70s period. It is comprised of two consecutive concerts in Osaka on February 1, 1975, with the Matinée show released as Agharta in 1976. After that...
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Slow Boat Records, Wellington
New Zealand is quite a unique and beautiful country as Hollywood has proven, and you will find some of its music in this record shop: Slow Boat, residing in Wellington, serves its customers with...
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“Good music never dies, no matter how old it is”: Interview with Gerald Short...
With attention to detail, a keen eye for quality and an obsessive persistence unique to the world’s most passionate record collectors, Gerald Short has built up a formidable label in Jazzman Records....
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Ken Nordine – Colors
It should come as no surprise that Ken Nordine’s 1966 “word jazz” album Colors: A Sensuous Listening Experience is about just that; colour. An album born out of a paint commercial which riffs on the...
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Sing It Loud: Jazz and Protest in the Music of Nina Simone & Billie Holiday
Nina Simone and Billie Holiday are two of the greats. Matriarchs in a long line of enlightened performers. They are remembered for the fire in their bellies as much as the warmth in their hearts, and...
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Interview: Idris Ackamoor of “The Pyramids”
When a young Idris Ackamoor was given the opportunity to travel to Europe with a saxophone and a tape recorder, there was only one thing he was going to do: form a jazz band. Contemporaries of Sun Ra...
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