Monday, March 5, 2012

UK: Jazz Journal March 2012


Randy Brecker Mark Gilbert finds the Art in the electrified 1990s work of the former Duke Pearson, Horace Silver and Mingus trumpeter. Art Blakey, that is
Profiles
 James Evans gets feedback from his clarinet modelled after Alphonse Picou's Jazzophone; guitarist Phil Robson has been working with US sax master Mark Turner; trumpeterTom Arthurs goes both free and formal
Piano jazz 
Richard Palmer argues that the received wisdom on the development of jazz piano - as a linear canon - is in need of radically corrective revision
Straight ahead? Simon Spillett fears the current crop of young jazzers is alienating the core audience for the idiom
Books & DVD Gunther Schuller, John Surman, Andrew Hill, Gil Scott-Heron, Jazz Icons Series 5, David Murray
Remembered Bob Brookmeyer, Russ Garcia, Sam Rivers and Art Hillery

Jazz Journal