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Joe Alterman & Mocean Worker: Keep The Line Open (Mowo! Inc.) Atlanta-born jazz pianist Joe Alterman was in the middle of a soundcheck at New York’s Blue Note in 2012 when a wheelchair-bound Les McCann came up and asked him to “Play me some blues, boy.” An unlikely friendship developed and the pair, separated in […]
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Co-authors Barnett Singer (professor emeritus of history at Brock University, Ontario) and Jesse Read (professor emeritus and former director of the School of Music at the University of British Columbia are ardent Shavians. Unfortunately, they get off to a tangled and confusing start. Singer acknowledges the help of Read but states that “all references to […]
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I first heard a large proportion of my all-time favourite British/Britain-based jazz musicians, live or on record, when they were members of one Mike Westbrook band or another – to name just a few, there were John Surman, Mike Osborne, Alan Skidmore, Harry Miller, Kenny Wheeler, Alan Jackson… and Westbrook himself, of course. Since then […]
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Shear Brass: Extraordinary Journey (Ireton records R01CD/LP) George Shearing (eventually Sir George) was one of the first British jazz musicians to make a significant mark on the US scene after visiting and then settling in the USA in 1946. He started out playing with a strong bop slant, influenced particularly by Bud Powell, but would […]
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Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in September-October 2025, including Theorem of Joy, Aretha Tillotson, Toftemark/Benack III Quintet, Jordan Williams and Kai Winding // Editor's pick: Theorem of Joy
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