Sommaire pour August 2023 de Jazzwise

This year’s EFG London Jazz Festival, which runs from 10 to 19 November at venues, across the capital for 10 days and nights, continues to expand its programme of unique line-ups and collaborations with some eye-catching additions. Leading the pack is US sax star Joshua Redman, who is set to bring his newly-formed Quintet to the Barbican on 12 November. A serial collaborator, Redman’s recent announcement that he’s signed to Blue Note ushers in a new band of Aaron Parks on piano, Joe Sanders on bass, and Brian Blade on drums, and for the first time in a Redman line-up, a singer, in the form of California-born vocalist-composer of Italian descent, Gabrielle Cavassa. Playing music from his forthcoming Blue Note debut Where We Are – which gets its UK premiere…

Jazz always carries the weight of its own history – and anyone who plays it knows it’s not just a technical challenge, but a personal mission to overcome the vastness of the music and make it your own. This month’s issue has some illuminating insights into this process from our cover star, the talented Zoe Rahman. As a fully independent artist she continues to rise above the challenge of not just creating and releasing her own highly intricate and passionately executed music, but combines that with motherhood too. As any parent also knows, this often requires those immense, frequently unsung, superpowers just to get you through the day! And while we may put the likes of Coltrane and Dolphy on a pedestal as jazz icons, they too were approaching their…

Composer, saxophonist, bandleader and visual artist Matana Roberts is set to release her new album Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden… on 29 September via Canadian imprint CST. The fifth instalment of her vast project exploring African-American history through ancestry, archive and place, the album weaves together elements of jazz, avant-garde composition, folk and spoken word, as Roberts tells the story of an ancestor, a woman “who died following complications from an illegal abortion”. At a time when reproductive rights are under attack in the US, Roberts explains how this influenced the music: “I wanted to talk about this issue, but in a way where she gets some sense of liberation, to create a portrait of a woman who is, as the lyrics put it, electric, alive, spirited, fire…

1 Lady in Satin by Billie Holiday (1958) “The first time jazz came into my consciousness was hearing ‘I’m a Fool to Want You’, from this record. I was about 14 years old, and my sister was playing the vinyl in her room. I remember her emotional intensity grabbed me immediately and made me wonder what type of music this was, and it opened up a massive new world of expression to me. I found the beautiful and lush arrangements alongside her broken voice very moving.” 2 Prince by Prince (1979) “Picking one Prince album is really tough, as they all have brilliant tunes and extraordinary versatility and surprise in them. But I picked this classic as the front cover is so hilarious! Ha! Joke. ‘I Feel For You’ and…

Back in 2013, I asked Peter Brötzmann if he would ever stop playing. His answer was an emphatic 'no'. He would, he said, carry on “as long as my body keeps me going and my brain works somehow.” It’s emblematic of his total commitment to an all-consuming, life-long artistic calling that he has been true to his word. News of his death comes just four months after his final performances in February this year. Born in Remscheid, in western Germany, Brötzmann first came to jazz aged 13, after witnessing a life-changing concert by clarinettist Sidney Bechet. Teaching himself clarinet and then saxophone, he began gigging in local Dixieland and swing bands. He was also an aspiring visual artist and, aged 18, he moved to the city of Wuppertal – his…

There’s an old adage which says if you want something done, you ask a busy person. Well, it’s been modified recently, to read if you want a job well done, you ask a woman. Which brings us neatly to bassist and Guildford Jazz founder Marianne Windham. Now a valuable player in her own right, she made the ultimate mid-life decision, reinventing herself as a working musician and jazz activist, having set aside a successful career as the director of a software business. When we talked about the challenges involved in being both player and promoter, I first asked her to think back to the time when she embarked on what must have seemed a risky new venture. “It felt like a huge decision to make and I agonised for some…

Tony Allen Jazz Is Dead 18 Jazz Is Dead JID 018 (CD, LP, DL) Tony Allen (d), Adrian Younge, Ali-Shaheed Muhammad (prod, instruments), plus various guests. Rec. date not stated The passing of Tony Allen in 2020 robbed contemporary music of one of its finest rhythm masters. His supreme control of pulse, which pulled off the feat of being laser-precise, all the while feeling effortlessly leisurely, made him a cornerstone of Afrobeat and modern dance genres. This Jazz Is Dead session rightly foregrounds his skill but the eight tracks on offer, recorded under the aegis of the label’s producers Adrian Younge and Al Shaheed-Muhamad and sundry musicians, do little to enhance Allen’s legacy. For the most part, the drummer is typically appealing but the material is too pedestrian, as there…

Celestial Night Dreamer ND015 (LP, DL) Knoel Scott (as, f, v), Marshall Allen (as, EWI), Charlie Stacey (p), Chris Henderson (d) and Mikele Montilli (b). Rec. 18 and 19 July 2022 There’s a glorious tradition of talented sax players who shunned the limelight to spend almost their entire careers as loyal acolytes to Sun Ra – from tenorist John Gilmore to the Arkestra’s current leader, Marshall Allen. Add altoist Knoel Scott to that list. He’s been on board the Arkestral space caravan for the best part of 40 years, so it’s good to see him now finally releasing his debut as a leader. After so many years bathing in his cosmic influence, it’s unsurprising that the date orbits Ra’s world. Allen’s on hand providing his unmistakeably raw alto bark and…

With Strings Attached New Land Records NEWLANDX003 (6 LP) Dorothy Ashby (hp), Frank Wess (f), Terry Pollard (vb), Tony Studd, Quentin Jackson, Sonny Russo, Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Herman Wright, Eddie Jones, Wendell Marshall, Richard Davis (b), Ed Thigpen, Jimmy Cobb, Grady Tate, John Tooley, Arthur Taylor, Roy Haynes (d) and Willie Bobo (perc). Rec. August 1956, 21 March 1958, 19 September 1958, 8 and 15-16 August 1961, 3–4 May 1965 Although she didn’t ‘invent’ the jazz harp – that distinction probably belongs to Casper Reardon (1907-41) or Adele Girard (1913–1993) – Detroit native Dorothy Ashby has a good claim as the key innovator of the instrument in jazz. Always overshadowed by her near-contemporary, the better-known Alice Coltrane, Ashby had been unfairly forgotten in the music’s history until fairly recently; but…

Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums Contemporary/Craft Recordings CR00434 (3CD, 3LP, DL) Sonny Rollins (ts) with (coll pers) Vic Feldman (vb), Hampton Hawes (p), Barney Kessel (g), Ray Brown, Leroy Vinnegar (b) and Shelly Manne (d). Rec. 7 March 1957 and 20-22 October 1958 It’s comparatively easy to assemble a compilation of Rollins’ work for the LA-based Contemporary label, consisting of two albums and some alternate takes. Way Out West, celebrating his first visit there, is justly famous – and not just for the cover photograph. If you sometimes think it might be a tad overrated – given the amount of equally fantastic stuff that Sonny recorded during 1956-58 – another listen is enough to get you excited all over again. The fact that this was his first album with…

"I first really encountered jazz on the John Peel radio show,” begins Nigel Aubrey Thomas. “He played a track from the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Inner Mounting Flame, and I was blown away having never heard anything like it before. Without knowing any names, I started taking out random jazz records from the local record library and somehow discovered John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, which had a profound effect on me, and I almost wore it out! The whole amazing world of jazz opened up to me and I felt I’d found what I wanted to play!” Creativity has long been at the heart of the Thomas family. “My sister is an artist, and my great grandfather, Walter Aubrey Thomas, was a noted architect who designed the Liver Buildings and other landmarks…

How the world turns! It’s just a year since Trish Clowes and My Iris released A View with a Room on Greenleaf, esteemed US trumpeter Dave Douglas’ label. That album was largely born from lockdown isolation and uncertainty. But now, here in flesh and blood, were those key players – joined together for the first time, trading choruses as though sprung from the same jazz womb. And there was a third spirit present at the crowded, expectant 606, a spirit deeply embedded in the jazz reality of Clowes and Douglas. Wayne Shorter died just six weeks previously, and extraordinarily Douglas had with him a previously unheard Shorter piece. ‘Destination Unknown’ opened the second set, thoughtful, inevitably enigmatic. But with the sound now better balanced (Douglas had somewhat swamped Clowes in…

BBC RADIO 2 88-91 FM and DAB Big Band Special (Mon, 11pm), Jamie Cullum show (Tues, 9pm) BBC RADIO 3 90-93 FM and DAB J to Z (Sat 5pm) Pianist Rebecca Nash live in session, plus Joe Chamber's inspirations (15 July) US sax star Branford Marsalis joins Julian Joseph for an exclusive session for J-to-Z (22 July) Jazz supergroup ARTEMIS live in session, plus Franco-Syrian flutist Naïssam Jalal's inspirations (29 July) The best in jazz – past, present and future (5 August) The best in jazz – past, present and future (12 August) We Out Here festival highlights (19 August) The best in jazz – past, present and future (26 August) Jazz Record Requests (Sun, 4pm) Freeness with Corey Mwamba (Sat, Midnight) BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC DAB Gilles Peterson, Sat…

Write in to us here at Letters Dept, Jazzwise Magazine, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB or email letters@jazzwise.com Scottish jazz: A reality check Mike Flynn may have been wearing his rose-tinted spectacles when he wrote his July Editor’s Note. He is right to praise Creative Scotland for its commitment to Scottish jazz, but to infer from that a more joined-up approach in Scotland to jazz and culture is stretching it. Holyrood has seen a succession of Culture Secretaries and Ministers come and go, few of whom showed any knowledge of jazz. Public expenditure cuts over decades have undermined local authority funding for jazz venues and events, no doubt mirroring the rest of the UK. A report of a study into the Scottish jazz and blues scene carried…

UK imprint My Only Desire Records (MODR) has come up with an inspired idea to introduce the riches of the Brit-Jazz canon to new audiences, with their Brit Jazz 45s series. This sees contemporary jazz acts record two 1960s/70s British jazz compositions apiece and present them as limited-edition vinyl 7” singles. The series gets underway with saxophonist/composer Kevin Figes and his group You Are Here, paying homage to two revered Brit jazz musicians – Keith Tippett and Elton Dean – with newly-minted recordings of a classic track from each. Figes’ group, You Are Here, grew out of a celebration of the life of late, great pianist/composer Keith Tippett, who died in 2020, and with whom Figes recorded and performed with. The fine band features Figes on soprano/alto sax, trumpeter Pete…

Liverpool's Cavern Club was the city's go-to jazz venue from the late 1950s, having been opened in 1957 by promoter Alan Synter in an old barrel-ceilinged warehouse basement at 10 Mathew Street, modelled on Le Caveau jazz club in Paris. However, by 1961 the packed-out jazz nights were being challenged on Merseyside by the growing rock'n'roll scene erupting from the city's numerous dance halls. New Cavern boss Ray McFall reluctantly withdrew the club's ban on rock'n'roll and slowly began to embrace the beat-group boom, which coincided with the launch of Merseybeat, a fortnightly music paper where the Cavern advertised one of its infamous all-nighters on Saturday, 5 August 1961. Topped by the Panama Jazzmen, Kenny Ball's Jazzmen and Mike Cotton's Jazzmen (Trad was such a male thing!), further down the…

The Ivor Novello Award-winning duo of saxophonist Tori Freestone and pianist Alcyona Mick return with their second album as a duo, Make One Little Room An Everywhere, this September, along with some UK live dates. First forming their duo in 2015 after being invited to perform together at the Manchester Jazz Festival, the pair have toured extensively and released their debut LP, Criss Cross, in 2017. The new album draws on a diverse set of influences including English folk, Brazilian, Arabic, free playing, Monk and more, with two special guest vocalists in the form of Brigitte Beraha and Natacha Atlas. The award-winning Beraha is featured on a spellbinding rendition of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Both Sides Now’, while the internationally-acclaimed Atlas lends her beguiling voice to the haunting Arabic-infused ‘Who We Are…

This month DJ and broadcaster Gilles Peterson gets to re-release an album that he cites as one of his “all-time top ten jazz albums”. Peterson’s Arc Records will release a special vinyl LP version of Max Roach’s Members, Don't Git Weary on 14 July. Originally recorded in June 1968, Members, Don’t Git Weary reflects the tumult of that year: it was taped under the long shadow cast by the assassinations of US Attorney General Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, and is described as “an appeal to keep faith and remain hopeful” as a spiral of violence escalated across America. Joining Roach on the album are Gary Bartz on sax, Charles Tolliver on trumpet, Stanley Cowell on piano, Jymie Merritt on electric bass, and vocalist Andy…

Different Eyes Ubuntu UBU0136 (CD, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Uriel Herman (p), Itamar Borochov (t), Uriel Weinberger (ts, f), Avri Borochov (b), Haim Pesko_ (d) and Maayan Doari (perc). Rec. 2022 Uriel Herman, the young pianist and composer from Jerusalem, studied classical piano and composition with exalted Israeli conservatoire teachers during the 2000s, but has recently toured the world as a soloist and bandleader in pursuit of an increasingly personal and spontaneously-evolving music. When he released his 2014 debut album, Awake, it was evident how far the then 26 year-old Herman had moved from the orthodox roots of his training - songs by Nirvana and Radiohead joined originals framing words by revered Hebrew-language poets Yehuda Amichai and the gifted but short-lived Tirza Attar. Different Eyes, Herman's third release, and a vivid…

Mark Lewandowski A Bouquet For Lady Day Ubuntu UBU0146 (CD, DL) Mark Lewandowski (b), Liam Noble (p) and Heidi Vogel (v). Rec. date not stated Tributes to Billie Holliday are not in short supply: the woman christened Eleanora Fagan has become subsumed into an iconic figure in the popular imagination that sometimes reduces this complex and multi-talented artist to a handful of tragic clichés. This project takes a different approach - there’s no ‘Lover Man’, no ‘God Bless The Child’ and, for all but two tracks, no vocals. Instead, we have a series of duets where Lewandowski and pianist Liam Noble deploy their considerable depth as musicians to create a set of pieces that aren’t pastiches or self-conscious exercises in nostalgia, but rather explorations of Billie’s unique musical legacy, especially…

3’Ain Sea Of Stories Choux De Bruxelles CD/DL Gorgeous Syria-by-way-of-Belgium jazz whose mood is primarily eerie and melancholic. Yamen Martini on trumpet and flugel is outstanding on this seven-track collection and the trio’s mixture of brass, accordion and double bass makes for some very interesting textures. Léon Aphar Aphar’s Cave Circum-Disc CD/DL Inspired by the Nick Cave records he listened to as a youth, guitarist Aphar teams up with percussionist/vocalist Ivann Cruz to create a strange, ghostly and country blues-inflected set of stories that sound older than time itself. Richie Beirach Leaving Jazzline CD/DL A splendid solo piano recital, recorded in France last year, in which the pianist tackles 13 evergreen jazz standards. He doesn't bring anything dazzlingly original to these old warhorses, but there is a pleasing spontaneity to…

Discover Who I Am: The Fontana Years 1966-1970 Universal/Mercury 4841322 (6 CD, DL) RECOMMENDED Blossom Dearie (p, el p, v), Kenny Wheeler (t), Ian Carr (flhn), Derek Grossmith, Harold McNair, Ray Warleigh (f), Keith Bird (as), Reg Leopold (vn), Kenny Salmon (org), David Snell (hp), Jeff Clyne, Freddie Logan, Arthur Watts, Pete McGurk, Daryl Runswick (b), Johnny Butts, Allan Ganley, Ronnie Verrall, Spike Wells (d), Jim Lawless, Slan Hakin (perc), Ladybirds (v), strings, plus Reg Guest, Brian Gascoigne (arr, dir). Rec. 1966-1970. Blossom Dearie’s professional life can be divided into several periods, from her early days in New York, via a stay in Paris to her return to the United States and her association with Norman Granz’s Verve record label. This era has been beautifully covered in the recent Early…

Classical BROUGHT TO YOU BY BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / John Wilson Coates – Orchestral Works, Vol 3 Chandos (CHAN20164) Welcome to the third volume of the music of Eric Coates from John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic. The disc is flawless: two suites and a ‘phantasy’ flanked by shorter pieces, so redolent of the period they evoke from the late Twenties to the early Fifties – when Coates had to hand a march tune, which the producers of the forthcoming film The Dam Busters (1955) took a liking to. John Wilson’s way with it – letting that tune glide in almost imperceptibly, then the violins decorate it, like sprinkling icing on a cake – typifies his approach. Individual players relish their opportunities to shine. Helena Wood, the Philharmonic’s leader, lingers…

The Brecon Beacons will once again come alive to an eclectic range of high-calibre UK and international names who descend on the picturesque locale in Powys, mid Wales for this summer’s 40th anniversary edition of the Brecon Jazz Festival. Taking place over three weekends, things get underway on 6 August with Jazz in the Marquee – Family Jazz & Dance Day, with performances from Rachel Hayward’s Swing Quartet, Fiesta Resistance and the 10-piece Funkyard led by young saxophonist Maddie Penfold, all at the Showground Marquee. This is followed by the main festival weekend that runs from 11 to 13 August with a wide spectrum of jazz sounds at the town’s central venue, Theatr Brycheiniog, as well as Brecon Cathedral, St Mary’s Church, Castle Hotel, and Brecon Guildhall with some gigs…

Sydney-based trio Brekky Boy are set to visit the UK for the first time following a run of international appearances at SXSW, Montreux and Jazzahead, which have garnered praise and a rapidly growing fanbase. Consisting of bandleader keyboardist Taylor Davis, bass guitarist Ryan Hurst and drummer Alex Hirlian, the trio mix lyrical melodies, hard-hitting polyrhythms, EST/Tigran-style progressive grooves and no shortage of Aussie humour that frequently sees them dropping in 'twisted quotes' from Toto’s ‘Africa’ and Luther Vandross’ ‘Never Too Much’. Completely independent and self-managed with no label or booking agent, the band continue to be booked for major festivals with August dates including shows in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Serbia and the UK. Their next album is due for release this autumn and is preceded by their latest single, ‘Blue…

NAME: Romarna Campbell INSTRUMENT: Drums EXPERIENCE: Romarna is a drummer, producer and composer whose nomadic spirit lives in her jazz, electronic and hip-hop infused music. Her 2020 single ‘Inherently Political’ saw DJ Jamz Supernova crown her ‘New Name of the Week’ and was followed by her debut album 25 Songs for My 25th Birthday featuring Soweto Kinch, Tomeka Reid, Sumi Tonooka and Lady Sanity. She's worked alongside Billy Childs, Courtney Pine and Denys Baptiste and has had high-calibre mentors including Gary Crosby, Terri Lyne Carrington and Neal Smith. THIS FUTURE MOVER SAYS: “My approach to playing is very much that of a conversation and pushing boundaries! I enjoy that I can communicate within the context of a band and create conversations that can only happen within the realm of improvisation.…

It’s been said before that Bud Powell is by far the most ignored of the early bebop pioneers. Partly because, instead of being an attention-getting hornman, he sat at the piano. But, when you hear of certain live situations where he was more exciting and more intensely creative than Charlie Parker, you know something was going on. Unfortunately, his career and his playing had definite ups and downs, and his early death at age 41 didn’t lead to regular re-evaluation of his best work. By the start of 1953, he had not recorded for nearly two years and, only after his release from hospital, he was signed to a flagrantly one-sided contract to appear nightly at NYC’s Birdland club, from which some broadcasts have survived, as of course did the…

● BERAHA AND BOURNE FOR HARD EDGES SESSIONS Hard Edges Plus is a new three-part concert series, featuring the improvising brass trio Hard Edges – Chris Dowding (trumpets and flugelhorn), Dave Amis (trombone), and Ben Higham (tuba, trumpet and flugelhorn) – who will be joined by three leading UK improvisers: vocalist Brigitte Beraha, pianist Matthew Bourne and flautist Neil Metcalfe, one at each event held at Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich. Embodying decades of creative performance experience and recognising a commitment to improvisation which stems from the emerging scenes in the 1960s to the present day, Hard Edges "explore the sound palette and textures of three brass voices, from dialogue to declamation, incorporating explosive blasts, subtle multiphonics, drones and more". Stemming from long time associations between all six musicians, the trio…

Third Man Records, the label and retailing/manufacturing empire owned by rock star Jack White (White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather), has teamed up with Blue Note to create the 313 Series Partnership, showcasing five Detroit-themed albums from the Blue Note catalogue. Each has been chosen for re-release by Blue Note Records President – and Detroit native – Don Was. The 313 Series Partnership will include such classic Blue Note titles as Thad Jones' Detroit-New York Junction (1956), Donald Byrd's Electric Byrd (1970), Elvin Jones' Genesis (1971), a first-ever vinyl reissue of Kenny Cox and The Contemporary Jazz Quintet’s Multidirection (1969) and a first-ever LP release of Grant Green's Live at Club Mozambique (1971). All five releases in the 313 Series are newly remastered from the original tapes at Third…

Tom Ollendorff is a quiet man making a big noise. His self-deprecating charm allows for glimpses of a steely determination to pursue his musical vision, and he’s already attracting all the right sorts of attention. We’re speaking on the day after his band played in Dalston’s Vortex club promoting Open House, his sophomore release on the legendary Barcelona-based Fresh Sound New Talent label: the album features guest appearances by much-feted NYC saxophonist Ben Wendel, and although Ben couldn’t be on the gig, another surprise guest saxophonist took to the stage: storied UK legend Tim Garland. With support from the NYC cutting edge, key European scenesters, and the UK’s elder statesmen, as well as the accolades of his youthful peers, exciting possibilities are unfolding before him. “My first record came out…

“It feels clichéd, but it’s A Love Supreme! I was probably 17 [when I first heard it]. I was introduced to jazz in high school, and it was quite often through the drummer. There was a big band, and in my private drum lessons I was being exposed to guys like Tony Williams and Roy Haynes. Trying to do my homework and learn more about this music, I checked out John Coltrane, and so heard Elvin Jones. I didn’t understand him, but I knew there was really something special. So, okay - I need to check out Elvin, so I need to buy some records; and that was when I found A Love Supreme. Now, I would say it’s probably the record I’ve listened to the most times in my…

Day Moon Justin Time 068944027729 (CD, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Christine Jensen (as, ss), Steve Amirault (p), Adrian Vedady (b) and Jim Doxas (d). Rec. August 2022 Day Moon contains a series of compositions by the acclaimed Canadian saxophonist Christine Jensen that reflect her state of mind during the pandemic years. There’s nothing on the recording that represents the isolation experienced during those days by many people quite like Jensen’s lonesome soprano sax on the Shorter-ish ballad ‘Lined’, which mixes ‘Spanish’ modal and contemporary free bop with an eerily penetrating ambience that sets the tone for the rest of the album. It’s the opener to the excellent ‘Quiescence Suite’ which she was recently commissioned to write by New York’s Jazz Coalition. This is followed by the hard bop-ish ‘Twenty Twenty Blues’…

Prophecy Mahakala MAHA-064 (CD) Ivo Perelman (ts), Aruán Ortiz (p) and Lester St. Louis (clo). Rec. date not stated The Whisperers Mahakala MAHA-065 (CD) Ivo Perelman (ts) and James Emery (g). Rec. date not stated Brazilian tenor man Perelman is probably best known for his enduring partnership with pianist Matthew Shipp, which has found voice on dozens of albums, both as a duo and alongside other heavyweights such as William Parker. But he’s also a serial collaborator, keen to immerse himself in other contexts. Moreover, while there’s something about Shipp’s cerebral urgency that brings out Perelman’s most dramatic statements, it’s in these less familiar settings that we hear a different side of Perelman: less concerned with extremes; more playful, even. He brings that energy to these two new releases. Cuban…

Brian Auger & Julie Tippetts Encore Esoteric/Cherry Red ECLEC2832 (CD) Brian Auger (p, org, syn, v), Julie Tippetts (v), George Doering (g), David McDaniels (b), Dave Crigger (d) with Maxine Waters Willard, Julia Waters Willard and Jesica Smith (bv). Rec. October-November 1977 Reunion albums rarely rekindle the magic of former glories, often becoming little more than marketing opportunities for the (financially) more rewarding tour to follow. One such album to decidedly buck the trend was the reuniting of Brian Auger and Julie Tippetts (née Driscoll) for Encore, a 1978 release for Warner Bros and the duo’s first for almost a decade since 1969’s excellent Julie Driscoll-Brian Auger & The Trinity double album Streetnoise. They were among the first UK jazz-rock pioneers, and the album brought together Auger’s increasingly imaginative Hammond…

Old and New Dreams ECM Luminessence 1154 (LP, DL) Don Cherry (ct), Dewey Redman (t), Charlie Haden (b) and Ed Blackwell (d). Rec. August 1979 The New Quartet ECM Luminessence 1030 (LP, DL) Gary Burton (vb), Mike Goodrick (g), Abraham Laboriel (b), Harry Blazer (d). Rec. 5–6 March 1973 These two releases, both examples of exceptional music-making, represent the second batch of ECM’s new Luminescence vinyl reissue programme, casting light on gems from the label’s illustrious back catalogue. Old and New Dreams is from an ensemble (pictured) formed in 1976, and comprised of the foremost exponents of acoustic Ornette Coleman compositions, with Cherry, Haden and Blackwell three-quarters of the band that played on Coleman’s This Is Our Music from 1960; Redman was a childhood friend of Coleman’s from his Fort…

The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World is an exclusive 100-page definitive guide to the most important and influential jazz albums that have gone on to change and shape the course of the music from the 1920s to the present day. ■ Print-only, premium quality, publication edited and conceived by Jazzwise’s editor-in-chief Jon Newey ■ The first time a fully annotated top 100 jazz album countdown from 100 to No.1 has been published in book form ■ Includes new in-depth editorial on each album from Jazzwise’s acclaimed team of writers, plus in-depth features on the making of the top three albums, a look at the albums that almost made the cut and a guide to buying the featured titles on LP and CD “This superbly written assemblage is an…