Mostly music

I’ve just returned from a tour to the Far East, mostly in Hong Kong and Japan. The band, put together by Pekka Pylkkanen (alto) from Finlan...

Bill Evans a forgotten man? Seems like an absurd thought – but with the arrival of the 30th anniversary of Evans’ death on September 15th, I...

Why do many truly great jazz musicians, musicians who over many years have played some of the greatest music in the idiom and forged reputat...

I’ve just been listening to Alan Ferber’s new recording ’Chamber Songs’ , which features his nonet with the addition of a string group. I al...

I just saw where Ethan Iverson - without doubt the most respected jazz blogger around (at least as far as writing about the actual music is ...

In the previous post on Denny Zeitlin, I questioned whether anyone apart from Denny had ever really scaled the jazz heights as a player des...

(Since I wrote this post I receieved some factual corrections, observations and clarifications from Denny - I've added these in an adden...