You’d probably have to be very keen on Nina Simone’s music to want this book, and the author is, of course, just that. He’s also keen on very complex prose, as exemplified in this quotation (from Malik Gaines): “In Simone’s performance methodology, multiple positionality is a source of the permanent exclusion experienced in any one […]

Jazz Journal

19.10.2024

Rochester Cathedral Jazz and Blues Festival - Jazz Journal

We know what an important role the church has played in the development and sound of jazz, so despite the music’s more venal connotations, a cathedral might not be such an unlikely venue for a jazz series. Thus it is next month when Rochester Cathedral in Kent hosts its second jazz festival. Born-and-bred Medway man […]

Jazz Journal

22.10.2024

Those same old chestnuts roasting on an open fire - Jazz Journal

What is claimed to be the world’s first AI-generated Christmas jazz album is set for release on 14 November. At a time when so much jazz sounds reiterative, this is, perhaps, timely. The Christmas album, like Christmas itself, is full of clichés and going one step further, this one is a simulation of a set […]

Jazz Journal

22.10.2024

Jazz FM now and then - Jazz Journal

Jazz FM – just for London in those days before internet radio – was launched in 1990 after lobbying by Dave Lee, the former Dankworth pianist and composer of the That’s Life TV theme. Working in Los Angeles in 1980, Dave had been so impressed by the abundance of jazz on local radio that he […]

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