Indice dei contenuti per December 2024 - January 2025 in Jazzwise

For the latest breaking news visit www.jazzwise.com The winners have been announced for this year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards with recipients picking up awards for a diverse selection of categories, dominated by leading female jazz musicians from the UK jazz scene. The Awards are organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Group (APPJG) and supported by music licensing company PPL, and in the words of the organisers “celebrate and recognise the vibrancy, diversity, talent and breadth of the jazz scene throughout the United Kingdom”. Winners this year include Emma Smith​, for Jazz Vocalist of the Year; saxophonist and composer Emma Rawicz for Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year; Zoe Rahman for Jazz Album of the Year for her LP, Colour Of Sound, jazz harpist Alina Bzhezhinska’s HipHarp Collective for Jazz Ensemble of the…

NAME: Reuben Goldmark INSTRUMENT: Pianist/composer EXPERIENCE AND INFLUENCES: Reuben discovered his love for jazz as a teenager while studying at Chetham’s School of Music. In 2018 he reached the final of BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year with his compositions featured on BBC 4 and BBC Radio 3. In 2022 and 2023 he became the first back-to-back recipient of the Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition, and today he leads a piano trio under his name with fellow RAM graduates John Jones and Jonah Evans. THIS FUTURE MOVER SAYS: “In this next stage of my career, I want to focus on blending elements of classical music and jazz in my work. I have a long list of artists I’m eager to collaborate with, many from diverse musical backgrounds. Since moving…

Leading British pianist/composer Gwilym Simcock and his trio of bassist Conor Chaplin and James Maddren will present an evening of music byWayne Shorter and Duke Ellington, alongside Simcock’s own compositions at a special concert, Blue Notes: Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, Gwilym Simcock on 25 January 2025 at Brighton’s Dome. The trio will perform alongside the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), who welcome back American conductor and leading figure in contemporary and jazz music, Clark Rundell, for this concert. Rundell’s conducting has taken him from Boston Symphony to the Tokyo Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein to Brad Mehldau. This gig is part of a series programmed by top contemporary pianist Joanna MacGregor who is BPO Music Director, and follows with 2023’s Moondog: Sidewalk Dances concert collaboration with Seb Rochford and Andy Shepherd. www.brightondome.org…

As we celebrate trumpeter Miles Davis’ mid-1960s resurgence in this issue, Bootleg Series producer Richard Seidel (interviewed on page 28), has recommended a great resource for fans of Davis’ and Charlie Parker’s music. This is the Miles Ahead discographical website which is devoted to the music of Davis and Parker and has been online since mid-1995 when it was founded by US discographer Peter Losin. Recently Danish discographer Jan Lohmann, author of The Sound Of Miles Davis: The Discography 1945-1991 (Copenhagen: Jazz Media ApS, 1992) added all of his Miles Davis session data from the post-retirement years (1980-1991) to the Miles Ahead database, and the site now contains details for almost 1,200 Miles Davis sessions and 226 Charlie Parker sessions. Many other people from the USA, Europe, and Japan have…

“I see Miles as one of the great innovators in jazz, always exploring new sounds and having the confidence to experiment. I’ve been a fan since my teens and particularly love his electric period and the collaborations with Gil Evans. Listening to this new recording feels as if I’m there on stage with the band. The energy is tangible, engulfing you in an ocean of creativity. Then comes the roar of the audience – I can’t imagine how special those moments must have been for them. Achieving this level of storytelling, freedom, and departure from the conscious world, is every improvisers dream. This new collection is a great example of the mind-altering yet visceral and spiritual effect that jazz can bring.”…

Magnum Opus Banger Factory BF007 (LP, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Mark Kavuma (t), Misha Fox, Christ-Stephane Boizi, Wilf Diamond (tb), Mussinghi Brian Edwards, Ruben Fox, Theo Erskine (reeds), Artie Zaitz (g, org, v); Marcus Praestgaard, Jake Zaitz (g), Noah Stoneman, Rueben James (p), Deschanel Gordon (p, org), David Mrakpor (vib), Jake Garside (b), Jack Thomas, Will Cleasby (d), Sahra Gure, Marcina Arnold (v). Rec. June 2023, July-August 2024 This intriguing record offers a cross-section of the music played by the 20-piece (or so) collective that has emerged after Mark Kavuma founded the original Banger Factory Quintet in 2015. It’s multi-generational, not just in terms of players, but in terms of repertoire, so pianist Noah Stoneman’s dazzling solo on ‘Wayward’s Return’ not only sets the scene forTheo Erskine’s energetic alto, and Kavuma’s…

Lights On A Satellite In+Out Records IOR771581/2 (CD, 2 LP, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Marshall Allen (as, EVI, gong, v), Tara Middleton v, vn), Knoel Scott (as, bs, cga, v), Anthony Nelson (cl, bs), Nasir Dickerson (ts), James Stewart (f, ts), Chris Hemingway (as), Michael Ray (t, v),Cecil Brooks (t), Vincent Chancey (frhn), Brent White (tb, btb), Dave Davis, Robert Stringer (tb), Nina Bogomas (hp), Owen Brown Jr, Gwen Laster (vn), Melanie Dyer (vla), Farid Barron (p, ky, moog theremin), Carl LeBlanc (g, v), Dave Hotep (g), Tyler Mitchell (b), George Gray (d), Elson Nascimento (surdo, perc) and Jose Jorge Da Silva (perc). Rec. 2024 By way of marking Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen’s 100th trip around the sun, Lights On A Satellite is a celebration that charts the past,…

The Susceptible Now Pi Recordings PI104 (CD, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Tyshawn Sorey (d), Aaron Diehl (p) and Harish Raghavan (b). Rec. 2024 The growth of Tyshawn Sorey’s piano trio has been fascinating to watch for the emergence of a strong group identity, which makes the point that there are traditions – rather than a tradition – in improvised music. Above all, the question the drummer asks of terms such as ‘hot’ and ‘cool’ is as engaging as it is thought provoking when one considers not the apparent opposition but perhaps actual commonality between the two schools. The epic opener ‘Peresina’ is a case in point. One of McCoy Tyner’s most masterful big band works is vividly re-imagined for the small group. However, his trademark domino topple chromatics are turned into…

Brian Auger & The Trinity ft Savannah Grace Live at Rockpalast Repertoire Repuk 1474 (CD/DVD) Brian Auger (org, p), Les King (b), Karma Auger (d, v) and Savannah Grace (v). Rec. 20 October 2011 As Auger delivers one of his magnificently mangled Germanglish intros, daughter Savannah turns her back on him with a splendid ‘Oh, Dad, you’re so embarrassing’ grimace. It’s a moment only DVDs can capture, and indeed the video production is fabulous; great colour, excellent camerawork and Savannah is rightly in the spotlight (even if the director favours salacious leg shots.) Funny that: there are no money shots of Auger’s generous tummy. Either way, it’s all great fun with Augur and band tight and juicy as they rattle through a greatest hits repertoire. ‘Season of the Witch’, ‘Road…

Cookin’ at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988 Resonance 9076 (2 CD, 3 LP, DL) RECOMMENDED Emily Remler (g), Cocho Arbe (p), Carson Smith (b), Tom Montgomery and Tom Pisci (d). Rec. 1984 and 1988 Here’s a handsome package honouring Remler in her prime. Just two or so years after her stunning debut Firefly, which she recorded aged just 24, there’s a maturity and a brazen self-confidence about these fiery performances that belie Remler’s age. Plenty of these cuts are available on YouTube but this is the first time they’ve been corralled together on disc. There’s an in-depth essay from the inimitable Bill Milkowski and recollections from contemporaries like Eddie Gomez and those Remler inspired including, poignantly, Russell Malone, who, like Remler, recently passed away too soon.…

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…

With the full programme to be announced in the coming months with the first jazz names to be confirmed in the coming weeks, the 2025 edition of Love Supreme Jazz Festival returns to the pictureesque setting of Glynde Place, East Sussex from 4 to 6 July 2025. Ahead of the jazz names being announced, the organisers have confirmed the first main stage headliner will be neo-soul superstar Maxwell – a triple Grammy winner, whose debut album Urban Hang Suite propelled him to international fame in the late 1990s. He will close the festival on the evening of Sunday 6 July for what will be his first UK appearance in nine years – and his only UK date of 2025. Brooklyn-born Maxwell played a pivotal role in the evolution of the…

Return with us now 60 years ago as the old year of 1964 was being dragged kicking and screaming into the wild blue(s) yonder of 1965 down at The Marquee club. Owner Harold Pendleton, also head of the National Jazz Federation, had, months earlier in March, relocated the club from its Oxford Street premises around the corner to 90 Wardour Street in the heart of Soho where it embarked on its imperial phase until the late 1980s. Back in the last gasp of 1964 however, The Marquee was pushing a hip, musically rich cross-fertilisation of London’s most crucial music scenes of the time, jazz, R&B and blues, as typified by this end of year advertisement in Melody Maker. Who’s gonna argue with their New Year’s Eve rave-up featuring Sonny Boy…

Early one November Monday morning, the media announced that one of the last true titans of 20th Century music, trumpeter-composer-arranger-band-leader-producer Quincy Jones, had died in his sleep, aged 91. Born in Chicago, with the full name of Quincy Delight Jones Jr, Jones was to become one of the most versatile and prolific arrangers, composers and bandleaders in both jazz and the wider field of popular music, as well as playing trumpet at the highest professional level. His first musical memories date from his Chicago childhood. Talking to me for the BBC World Service, he said: “Around the corner from our house was an armory where all the bands played, Earl Hines, Lunceford, and everyone. There was nobody in my family who was into music, although I used to go down…

“A true gentleman of jazz”, said fellow-saxophonist Simon Spillett, speaking of Jimmy Hastings, who died in March aged 85. “A beautifully lyrical player – his smile lit up a room”, added trumpeter Graham Russell, their tributes summing up Jimmy’s skills as an instrumentalist as well as his courteous affability. An Aberdonian by birth and proficient on tenor at sixteen, young Hastings played local gigs before moving south in 1959. There followed a bewildering array of performing assignments, his arsenal of instruments now encompassing clarinet and bass-clarinet, all the saxophones and flutes, his versatility honed on seven world cruises aboard the Southern Cross liner. Back in London, he took dance band jobs and then was with Ken Macintosh’s Orchestra for two years playing first tenor before moving on to the BBC…

The history of jazz is littered with tragedies, injustices and sad stories. But few stories are as sad as that of Beverly Kenney, a gifted singer and occasional songwriterwhose careerwas cut short at a tragically young age. And as a vocalist, she really was quite something: in a review of her superb 1959 album Born to be Blue, Allan Gilbert Jr, the editor of DownBeat magazine, said, “…she has the ability to gently, huskily slur, warp and mould her phrasing to achieve rare individuality.” So why isn’t she better known, and why is information about her so sketchy? It seems that nobody – not her family; not her best friend, the actress Millie Perkins; nor any of her boyfriends – really knew the aloof, if kindly, melancholy and introspective blonde.…

Nick Adema Urban Chaos ZenneZ 2024016 (CD, DL) Nick Adema (tb, pedal board), Joy Shechter (p), Azubike Onwuka (el b), Chen Har-Even (d), Noah Preminger (ts), Ante Medic (g), Valentine Blange (vn), Alkistis Misouli (vla), Joshua Herwig (clo), Liva Dumpe (v) plus Michael Murray (as). Rec. date not stated The trombonist Nick Adema wrote the compositions for his second album (following DemiLAN, released in 2021) as a musical commentary on the grieving process that followed his mother’s recent passing in the challenging context of living away from his native Canada in the city of Amsterdam. But Urban Chaos is not quite the sombre or edgy affair the title or the subject matter might imply; there’s a high spirited collective jazz energy at its centre and the ensemble notably features a…

TRIO – Edition Palmer II ACT Music 8000-2 (CD, LP, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Verneri Pohjola (t), John Paricelli (g) and Lars Daniesson (b). Rec. 30 May-2 June 2024 No surprise there’s a chamber music aura to this gorgeously intimate recording. For the second time (Michael Wollny and Joachim Kuhn profited before) ACT and the Chateau Palmer have collaborated. Instead of using a studio, the Trio recorded in a panelled room, looking out over the chateau’s grounds, cloistered within a palatial space. No wonder the first track is called ‘Le Calme au Chateau’. To play with such delicacy yet authority, to listen so hard yet play so soft are all qualities each of these artists possess. But that doesn’t mean they’ll gel as a new unit. Yet to hear them on…

Keeping Company ACT Music 9061 (CD, LP, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Bill Laurance (p) and Michael League (oud, fretless b, v). Rec. 10-13 July 2024 Longtime members of maximalist fusion ensemble Snarky Puppy, Bill Laurance and Michael League, have established unexpected new ground in their collaboration as a duo. Eschewing intricate song structures and soloing virtuosity, the pair’s 2023 debut Where You Wish You Were was a tender exploration of quietude on piano and oud. Their latest offering Keeping Company is quieter and more intimate, plumbing the space between the notes to produce a remarkable 11 tracks of dexterity and restraint. Opener 'Katerina' acts as a bridge to the oud-led Arabic-folk referencing melodies of their debut but as the record progresses it explores new ground. 'You' interweaves whispers and vocalisations with…

My Ideal Dot Time DTD9151 (CD) EDITOR’S CHOICE Catherine Russell (v) and Sean Mason (p). Rec. 23-24 August 2023 Russell’s recent US releases have her heartfelt vocal stylings cushioned by a small band. Having lately played Ronnie Scott’s and scored a considerable success, she was backed there by a trio. Here, though, it’s just a party for two. That said, young pianist Mason shares Russell’s willingness to delve into the lost days of Harlem jazz and more than justifies his equal billing on this alluring mix of old and (nearly) new material. Even as Russell shows her unerring command of lilting, old-time swing with ‘A Porter’s Love Song To A Chambermaid’, a James P Johnson composition from a 1931 African American revue, Mason exulting in his stride piano role, she…

Wingbeats Cuneiform Rune 520 (CD, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Mary Halvorson (g), Michael Formanek (b) and Tomas Fujiwara (d, vb). Rec. date not stated Thumbscrew’s roots are well documented, notably the influence of Anthony Braxton both in composition and performance. But the band have increasingly developed their own group sound and ethos. Wingbeats features even more of Fujiwara’s vibraphone which first came to the fore with 2022’s Multicolored Midnight. ‘Irreverent Grace’ finds the vibes spinning spells against Halvorson’s simply strummed chords while Formanek leads on warm toned bass. Halvorson herself plays cleaner and simpler as has been her style increasingly over recent years. There are still those tonal gyres and gimbals, but in their sparser use they hit all the bolder. Her tightly composed ’Greenish Tents’ also features Fujiwara’s vibes, and…

Finding My Way Home Night Time Stories ALNLP74W (LP, DL) Yazz Ahmed (t, flhn), Shabaka Hutchings (cl), Janek Gwizdala, Jay Darwish (b), Laurence Cottle (el b), Alam Nathoo (ts), Chris Fish (clo), John Bailey (p), Simon Hale (el p), George Hart (d) and Corrina Silvester (d, perc). Rec. 16 November 2008, 16 February and 11 September 2009 If pressed to name a significant figure to emerge in UK jazz this century, I’d personally argue for Yazz Ahmed, the British-Bahraini trumpeter and composer, whose gifts and open-mindedness were evident from the very start of her career. And that career began with Finding My Way Home, first released in 2011, on the tiny Suntara label. The CD has long been near-impossible to find and it’s never been made available on vinyl before,…

Oscar Peterson Trio: Exclusively For My Friends, Vol. V – Mellow Mood (MPS 1968) We’ve covered the legendary MPS label many times in Jazzwise, but of the German imprint’s many recordings, surely the best-known and most-loved are the six (seven if you count the Lost Tapes set) albums made by Oscar Peterson in his Exclusively For My Friends series. These were recorded live on vintage Telefunken gear by MPS founder-owner Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer for MPS at private concerts with a small audience at his home studio, situated in his villa. All of them are great both musically and sonically, but my personal pick would be this session, with OP accompanied by Sam Jones on bass and Bob Durham on drums. It’s a relaxed date – everybody’s obviously enjoying themselves –…

Waking up to a Trump victory on 6 November is a nightmare… as many have said there are no real silver linings and as we enter a new, much darker, era, only time will tell how bad things can get in this new world order. The threats to press freedom are – just like the free speech we are all entitled to – just the tip of a very scary iceberg of far right, ideologically-driven policies that will wreak havoc on America and the planet. Jazz was born out of repression and its joyful, playful nature in the face of aggression and prejudice is something we can always draw on – and reminds and reassures us that the strength of the human spirit can create great art from the depths…

London-based, Canadian-born trumpeter Jay Phelps has curated a new show which brings together the best of Miles Davis’ repertoire from 1958 and 1959. He’ll be leading the band with his own virtuosic trumpet playing alongside a talented line-up of alto saxophonist Donovan Hafner, tenor saxophonist Maddy Coombs, pianist Rick Simpson, bassist James Owston and drummer Jim Bashford. Prior to the release of Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time (to date it’s shifted more than five million copies worldwide), Miles was busy in the studio, working with the same lineup of musicians: Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. In 1958, the year before Kind of Blue, the album called ’58 Miles was released and set the stage for the birth…

“I like to play in Europe every now and then,” said Miles Davis to Playboy magazine in 1962, “But I don’t like to spend more time out of this house than I can help.” He also spoke of spending more time with his children and his wife Frances. Davis was taking a spot of what today would be called 'gardening leave'. What was not made public was that Miles was suffering from sickle-cell anaemia, which had given him pain for years, and which had recently flared up again. After the breakup of his great sextet that included John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans, Davis’s career seemed to have reached a plateau. His last two album releases, from March and April 1961 – Someday My Prince Will Come, and Miles Davis…

A few months after recording My Funny Valentine and ‘Four’ & More, George Coleman left Davis’ quintet. This was the stuff of legend, and I have heard/read many explanations for this. We know that prior to forming this band, Davis was enduring considerable pain from sickle-cell anaemia which appears to have continued through the duration of this band’s lifetime; and at the time, Coleman found himself fronting the band at bookings where Davis could not show up. Is this the reason? Richard Seidel: “Coleman was recommended to Miles by John Coltrane. Tony Williams was not a fan of George. Tony didn’t think he was 'modern' enough, not sufficiently adventurous. And Coleman had to bail Miles out a lot when he was physically ill and didn’t show up for gigs. I…

The Dark, The Light, The Grey and The Colorful Savant Records SCD 2217 (CD) EDITOR’S CHOICE JD Allen (ts), Gregg August (b, el b), Ian Kenselaar (b, el b) and Nic Cacioppo (d). Rec. January 2024 JD Allen, the Michigan-born tenor saxophonist, has a poetic imagination and a resolute focus on how best to use it. Unconcerned by what the hippest new jazz sound might be about to become, he has stayed close to the music’s deepest roots - blues, and the conversational exchanges between improvisers that have always driven jazz’s vigour and immediacy. Yet he consistently finds his own ways of inflecting the music with modernity too. On The Dark, The Light, The Grey and The Colorful Allen’s creative confidence in fronting pianoless bands steadily grows on this set…

Paul Dunmall/Kevin Figes Duos SLAM Productions SLAMCD2115 (CD, DL) Paul Dunmall (ts, ss, c, f, af) and Kevin Figes (as, ss, bs, f, af). Rec. date not stated Kevin Figes/Julie Tippetts Happy Apples SLAM Productions SLAMCD2117 (CD, DL) Kevin Figes (as, ss, f, bf, p, transistor radio, chicken) and Julie Tippets (v, zither, Happy Apples, Ducks, perc). Rec. date not stated David Bitelli & Ollie Usiskin Harlesden Sessions SLAM Productions (SLAMCD2116 (CD, DL) David Bitelli (ts) and Ollie Usiskin (d). Rec. date not stated In 2021 George Haslam closed down his SLAM Productions label after some 30 years and more than 250 album releases supporting jazz and improvised music. Recognising that legacy, Jon Griffiths of My Only Desire Records took over SLAM in 2023 and these first three CDs are…

7 x 7 by 7 Hollistic Music Works HMW 23 (CD, DL) EDITOR’S CHOICE Brian Lynch (t), Craig Handy (ts), Luis Perdomo (p), Alex Wintz (g), Boris Kozlov (b), Kyle Swan and Murph Aucamp (d). Rec. 2020-2024 Seven musicians, playing seven pieces, all seven minutes long, sounds like a gimmick. Well, it is, but when the music is as well-played as this it hardly matters. Each tune was also inspired by events seven years apart in Lynch’s life, but what we have is a collective sound, a formula of head, bridge passages, and solos, but with some sections being constructed so they would fit in other pieces on the album. So, not least because the core of the ensemble has a long history of working together, the band has an…

Hat-Trick! Wingsor Castle Records (CD, 2 LP, DL) Emma Smith (v), Samuel Watts (p), Joe Lee (b) and Luke Tomlinson (d). Rec. date not stated 2024 has turned out to be quite the year for vocalist Emma Smith. In September she won Jazz Artist of the Year in the Boisdale Music Awards, and was also a winner in the Jazz Vocalist of the Year category at this year’s Parliamentary Jazz Awards; she’s also toured the world with US supergroup, Postmodern Jukebox. Arranged by Smith and pianist Sam Watts, the classic ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker’ from Fiddler on the Roof immediately marks out the vocalist’s remarkable time feel on this new album. Written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn and celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, ‘Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of…

A Plane To Catch Soul Piece April Records A mix of soul, jazz and funk from these Danish festival circuit favourites, whose live sound translates well in the studio. Infectious grooves, crunchy clavinets, sinuous guitars and thick meaty Rhodes means that lovers of the JTQ, Big Boss Man and other similar outfits will love this. Recommended to get your Christmas party started. (KW) Reinier Baas & Ben van Gelder This Is Water DOX Records Inspired by novelist David Foster Wallace’s memorable ‘This Is Water’ speech, Baas’s chiming guitar and van Gelder’s breathy alto sax can slip easily from the glitchy to the graceful. The powerful Dutch duo add guests – pianist Marta Warelis, keyboardist Cory Smythe, plus drummers Jeff Ballard and Han Bennink – to create even greater depths on…

Evans in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert Elemental 5990547 (CD, 2 LP, DL) RECOMMENDED Bill Evans (p), Eddie Gomez (b) and Marty Morell (d). Rec. 26 June 1970 By the time this was recorded, Evans had been working with Eddie Gomez for the best part of four and a half years, and the empathy between them is well established. Not only does Gomez use the whole range of the instrument in his lines behind the piano, but such is the trust between them that Evans frequently opens up more space than hitherto, for him to take extended bass solos, which mix dexterous speed and lyricism. Also, whereas on some albums from this period, Gomez suffered from the recorded sound of his instrument, the Norwegian engineers have perfectly caught his full-toned playing,…

Jazz Revolutionary: The Life And Music Of Eric Dolphy Jonathon Grasse Jawbone PB £16.95 When Resonance issued Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 Studio Session by Eric Dolphy in 2019, the label astutely consolidated a growing interest in the innovative multi-reed player. He belongs to the same order of excellence as Trane, Ornette and Mingus, with whom he made groundbreaking music. This biography is thus topical and, more importantly, as illuminatingly detailed as it is engagingly readable. Drawing on a wealth of research, Grasse charts Dolphy’s childhood in Los Angeles between the 1930s and mid 1950s, covering vital moments such as his mentorship by the likes of Ellingtonian-esque Lloyd Reese, “a chain smoker who could party his ass off”, and Buddy Colette, as well as his first encounters with Mingus and…

BBC RADIO 2 88-91 FM and DAB Jamie Cullum show (Tues, 9pm) BBC RADIO 3 90-93 FM and DAB 'Round Midnight (Mon-Fri 11.30pm) Jazz Record Requests (Sun, 4pm) BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC DAB Gilles Peterson, Sat 3pm JAZZ FM DAB, Sky, Alexa, smartphone, tablet and online at jazzfm.com (Mon – Fri) 6.30am-10am Jazz FM Breakfast with Nigel Williams, 10am-2pm Danielle Perry, 2pm-6pm Afternoon drive with Simon Philips, 6pm-7pm Jazz FM’s Greatest, 7pm-9pm Jazz FM’s Dinner Jazz with Mark Walker. (Mon) 9pm-10pm Future Jazz with Ruth Fisher; 10pm-midnight Late Nite with China Moses. (Tues) 9pm-10pm Jazz Travels with Rouhangeze Baichoo; 10pm-midnight Late Night with China Moses. (Wed) 9pm-10pm Jazztronic with Dom Servini; 10pm-midnight Late Night with China Moses. (Thur) 9pm-10pm The British Jazz Show with Helen Mayhew; 10pm-midnight Late Night with…