Independent record labels are one of jazz's indispensible support systems, fuelled by the brave willingness of the enthusiasts who run them to buck the odds. My own early tastes were largely shaped in the 1960s by the work of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff at Blue Note, Bob Weinstock at Prestige, Dick Bock at Pacific…

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02.01.2025

Barre Phillips 1934-2024 | thebluemoment.com

Barre Phillips, who died in Las Cruces, New Mexico on December 28, aged 90, was a poet of the double bass, a member of a generation of players who, building on the achievements of Jimmy Blanton, Oscar Pettiford, Charles Mingus and Paul Chambers, lifted the instrument to new levels of flexibility and expression. One of…

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12.01.2025

Bird lives, dies, flies | thebluemoment.com

Coming up to the 70th anniversary of his death (on March 12, 1955), Charlie Parker can still stop you in your tracks. His sound may be as familiar as the head on a postage stamp, his style imitated with greater or lesser success by thousands of saxophone players, but that unquenchable inventiveness retains all its…

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13.01.2025

Three in one | thebluemoment.com

It felt like a great privilege to be at Cafe Oto last night to hear the Schlippenbach Trio -- Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone) and Paul Lytton (drums) -- make a rare appearance in London in front of a capacity crowd. This is a group that has existed since 1972, with one…

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