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Kevin Eubanks: Face To Face @ 40
You know you’re doing something right when the boss takes an interest. GRP Records was just coming into its own when label co-founder Dave Grusin co-produced, arranged and played keyboards on brilliant guitarist Kevin Eubanks’ fourth solo album Face To Face, released 40 years ago this month. Part of the so-called Young Lions generation, Eubanks’ […]
Nanami Haruta: The Vibe
Nanami Haruta was born in Sapporo, Japan, and started playing piano at just three years old. By the age of eight, she’d moved over to trombone and quickly became somewhat of a child star on the instrument, winning local competitions and giving concerts. Moving to Tokyo in 2020, she continued her meteoric rise, contributing to […]
Book Review: American Drummers (1959-1988) by Val Wilmer
Val Wilmer has arguably been Britain’s leading jazz photographer (and writer of classic jazz book ‘As Serious As Your Life’) since she started taking pictures of musicians over 60 years ago. And now Café Royal Books have issued a lovely budget paperback of Wilmer’s photos entitled ‘American Drummers 1959-1988’, which does exactly what it says […]
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers/IDJ Dancers: 35 Years On
1986 was a watershed year for the so-called ‘1980s Jazz Revival’. Indeed it was one of the few positives in a fairly duff year for music. Style magazines like The Face were on board and DJs such as Baz Fe Jazz, Patrick Forge, Gilles Peterson and Paul Murphy were spinning Blue Note sides for a […]
Wayne Shorter/Martial Solal + Tomorrow’s Warriors @ St Luke’s Church, 27 January 2004
It’s always interesting to hear jazz away from a club or concert hall, and both the unique location and musical content made this a very interesting evening indeed. The always-interesting Tomorrow’s Warriors started off the second night of Wayne Shorter’s Barbican residency with a mixture of the saxophonist’s early compositions for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers […]
Sounds Of Surprise 