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John Altman pays tribute to “one of the greatest arrangers in the history of popular music”, Jeremy Lubbock (1931-2021): Jeremy Lubbock, who passed away peacefully on Friday morning in Oxfordshire at ...

American-born drummer Jeff Williams has enjoyed an illustrious fifty-year career playing with the likes of Stan Getz, Joe Lovano and Lee Konitz. A founding member of the acclaimed quartet Lookout Farm ...

This Mosaic collection, limited to 3,500 copies worldwide, chronicles two fascinating decades of Louis Armstrong’s recording activity. At no stage is it ever less than revelatory. Seven CDs, as well ...

Mosaic Records is a Connecticut record company which reissues carefully curated sections of jazz history together with an informative illustrated booklet written by eminent jazz gurus, in limited ...

The right type of microphone, positioned correctly is vital for a great sounding jazz recording. Here I outline one way of achieving a good sound which doesn’t require any difficult miking technique ...

Mondays With Morgan is a new column in LondonJazz News written by Morgan Enos, a music journalist based in Hackensack, New Jersey. He will be diving deeply into the jazz that moves him – his main ...

Having begun by releasing its music solely on vinyl, the distinguished German label ECM eventually went with the inexorable digital flow and became a CD-only concern. Now, with the vinyl revival well ...

(Zeffirellis, Ambleside, Cumbria. 29 August – 1 September 2024. Round up review by John Arnett(*), plus a report on the final concert by Esra Kizir Gokcen.) John Arnett writes: Taking place over four ...

LondonJazz News: How did you first get to know Pat Metheny? Ti (Sirabhorn) Muntarbhorn: I arrived in Boston (aka ‘Beantown’) in the autumn of 1973 as one of Berklee’s early female jazz guitar students ...

Detroit-born pianist Kirk Lightsey has been living in Paris since 1992. Sebastian met him briefly in Dortmund at the WDR3 Jazzfest last week, and talked about some of his early life, but also his ...

This double album, originally released by Columbia in 1975/76, sees Miles Davis moving well beyond his two great quintets and approaching the end of his experimental fusion period, which began in ...