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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30.01.2025

Monday at the Cockpit | thebluemoment.com

Empirical's Shaney Forbes at the Cockpit (photo: Steven Cropper) I was pretty horrified over the new year to see, in the guides to the arts in Britain in 2025 produced by the Guardian and The Times, no mention at all of anything that might be happening in the world of jazz. Both papers have a…

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