The genius of Charles Mingus: activist, writer and jazz legend: Videos, Photos BOOKS MUSICIANS VIDEOS The genius of Charles Mingus: activist, writer and jazz legend: Videos, Photos https://JazzBlues.EU May 9, 2022 Mingus biographer Dr Nichole Rustin-Paschal offers an academic perspective on the musical legacy of one of the...Read More
John Scofield: Yeah. Absolutely. I didn’t ever have the wherewithal or the stuff to do it: Video, Photos NEWSFEED VIDEOS John Scofield: Yeah. Absolutely. I didn’t ever have the wherewithal or the stuff to do it: Video, Photos https://JazzBlues.EU May 7, 2022 The gemlike new album by John Scofield — simply titled John Scofield, releasing Friday on ECM — finds him alone with his...Read More
Charles Mingus: The string quartet was nine thousand times more difficult: Video, Photos BOOKS MUSICIANS VIDEOS Charles Mingus: The string quartet was nine thousand times more difficult: Video, Photos https://JazzBlues.EU May 5, 2022 Charles Mingus was 50 when I interviewed him in London in the summer of 1972. The great...Read More
Hazel Scott, pioneering Black star, used her fame to fight Jim Crow: Photos, Video BOOKS MUSICIANS NEWSFEED VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues Hazel Scott, pioneering Black star, used her fame to fight Jim Crow: Photos, Video https://JazzBlues.EU May 1, 2022 By the time Hazel Scott debuted at Carnegie Hall at age 20, she had been playing piano...Read More
Ornette and the skies of London: Video, Photos BOOKS MUSICIANS NEWSFEED VIDEOS Ornette and the skies of London: Video, Photos https://JazzBlues.EU April 29, 2022 Fifty years ago today, at 10 o’clock on the morning of Monday 17 April 1972, the photographer...Read More
Charles Mingus at 100: The legacy of the late jazz giant also looms large in rock, hip-hop, film and beyond: Photos, Video BOOKS MUSICIANS NEWSFEED VIDEOS Charles Mingus at 100: The legacy of the late jazz giant also looms large in rock, hip-hop, film and beyond: Photos, Video https://JazzBlues.EU April 28, 2022 From Joni Mitchell and Radiohead to Andy Summers of The Police, Jeff Beck and P-Funk’s Bernie Worrell,...Read More