When Clifford Jordan reached Paris in March 1975, at the height of his mid-decade resurgence, a new Selmer Mark VII tenor saxophone awaited him. Night of the Mark VII is named after it. Recorded in ...

Enrico Rava’s latest release, Corners, lets its character unfold through the shared connections between the musicians. The little shifts of emphasis, the knowing exchanges, and the sense that nobody ...

When Jean-Marie Machado took his trio with bassist Henning Sieverts and drummer François Merville to Le Triton in Les Lilas in October 2015, the set included Miles Davis‘s ‘Nardis’ and a Machado ...

Danny Thompson’s Whatever didn’t get their kicks on ‘Route 66’, or die ‘Autobahn’, or even on ‘2-4-6-8 Motorway’, it was the legendary A38 where they burnt rubber. Way back in 1993 band member Tony ...

I still have my CD of Ori Ire, which Kevin Haynes released on his own Egbe Oduniyi Productions imprint in 2002, and it remains a splendid record. The bata of Roland Thomas and Bill Bland sat alongside ...

The 1972 album Vento Sul marked another unique example of Marcos Valle reinventing and reinvigorating his compositions and arrangements, weaving an exciting tapestry of progressive sound with elements ...

The chair stayed empty. For its twentieth birthday, Nø Førmat! gave Vincent Segal carte blanche to plan a day of surprise performances across the Théâtre Silvia ...

In 2018, Paul Elliott finished The Library Music Film, the documentary he co-directed, produced, and edited, in which Shawn Lee searches for the composers who stocked the great production-music ...

‘Amaryllis 2’ marks the latest collaborative release between musician and producer Richard X Bennett and vocalist and percussionist Paula Jeanine Bennett unveiled through Ropeadope Records. Having ...

Printed history hasn’t always known what to call him. When Cash Box logged the arrival of Wooley the Newt in August 1980, in a round-up of four new titles via JCOA, the leader appeared as “Stephen ...

Every so often, a lineup tells you most of what you need to know before a note has sounded. For Floating, Emile Parisien (soprano saxophone) has gathered three musicians who lead in their own right: ...