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Sun Ra Arkestra (Under The Direction of Marshall Allen): Lights on a satellite
One of the unexpected treats of last year was a new – and excellent – album from the Sun Ra Arkestra: Lights On A Satellite. If you’re looking for an antidote to musical torpor, this could well be it. It draws on free jazz, classic big-band swing, spiritual jazz, gospel, New Orleans and light funk […]
Book Review: The Jazz Standards (A Guide To The Repertoire) by Ted Gioia
Like most good ideas, it’s a very simple one; an A-Z guide to the Great American Songbook from a jazz perspective – who wrote the tunes, why they wrote them and a roundup of the best versions. Gioia, a highly respected jazz writer and author, comes up trumps with ‘The Jazz Standards’, a well-researched, witty, […]
Sounds Of Surprise 