Chances are, if your artistic life is devoted to jazz, you’ve given a lot of thought to why you do it, and how to make some kind of living. So jazz players might have been better placed than some to [...]
How to distil the essence of music and music making, using words only? Arguably impossible, certainly challenging, this is the task Jeff Colella has set himself in this e book. With the exception of one chart (“Voyage” by Kenny Barron) [...]
It first came out as a limited edition, 100-copy deluxe hardback, price £84.95. It sold out within six weeks. You will be pleased to learn that a further edition of 100 copies (paperback this time) came out on 12th March [...]
This book presents a series of conversations between author Andy Hamilton and improvising musician Steve Beresford. It follows the pattern established in Hamilton’s 2007 book with Lee Konitz, Conversations on the Improviser’s Art. The conversations are lightly edited and initiated either [...]
