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Junior Cook (1934-1992) occupies a paradoxical space, simultaneously one of those tenor saxophone mainstays of hard bop era yet often forgotten or left off of “the lists”. Cook arguably was best known ...

Pure jazz, if there is such a thing, has often entered into marriages with other art forms: jazz & symphonic strings, jazz & rock electronics, jazz & dance, jazz & poetry. To these can be added the ...

Sophisticated Lady is sung straight as is In A Sentimental Mood. As Hilary points out though, the latter is a difficult one for singers with its long lyric lines and the need to perform it at slow ...

Features When Mingus met Mitchell Matthew Barton considers the sometimes fraught transformation of Mingus's farewell project at the hands of iconoclast Joni Mitchell ...

She might have grown up in rural Devon but the virtuoso saxophone playing of Emma Rawicz has put her at centre of metropolitan attention ...