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Cecil Taylor Unit: Fragments
‘You can’t rehearse the unknown’ – it’s attributed to Wayne Shorter but it was also a credo for Miles during his peak years of 1957-1970, calling on his players to do their ‘woodshedding’ on the stage rather than in the practice room. Listening to Fragments, the blistering new Cecil Taylor Unit two-CD/three-LP set recorded live […]
Hubert Laws/Smithsonian Masterworks Orchestra @ Milton Court, 6 April 2019
Mention the name of flautist Hubert Laws to jazz fans of a certain bent and it’ll elicit an expression of appreciation and affection – his name is synonymous with the kinds of cool jazz/Latin/funk exemplified by the CTI label, where he made a few fondly remembered albums, as well as making key contributions to Gil […]
Book Review: Pressed For All Time by Michael Jarrett
It’s a conundrum: how to preserve for all time something as quintessentially ephemeral and improvisatory as a jazz performance. So-called ‘red-light fever’ – the terror of preserving a take for eternity when the ‘record’ button goes on – has haunted the careers of a fair few jazz masters. And yet the music is littered with […]
Sounds Of Surprise 