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Jeff Parker, the ETA IVtet and the Long Road to Happy Today
Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet release their third album, Happy Today, on 15 May 2026. The first record they have made outside the small Highland Park bar where their sound coalesced is also the moment a long, quiet career argument finally reaches a wider audience.
Jeff Parker, the ETA IVtet and the Long Road to Happy Today
Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet release their third album, Happy Today, on 15 May 2026. The first record they have made outside the small Highland Park bar where their sound coalesced is also the moment a long, quiet career argument finally reaches a wider audience.
Jazz in Brazil: From Bossa Nova to the New Afro-Brazilian Vanguard
Brazil did not borrow jazz. It took the harmonic language and improvisatory instinct of American jazz and filtered it through samba, choro, Afro-Brazilian rhythm and Northeastern folk music to produce something with no real equivalent. From Chega de Saudade to Amaro Freitas's Y'Y, here is the full story.
Jazz in Brazil: From Bossa Nova to the New Afro-Brazilian Vanguard
Brazil did not borrow jazz. It took the harmonic language and improvisatory instinct of American jazz and filtered it through samba, choro, Afro-Brazilian rhythm and Northeastern folk music to produce something with no real equivalent. From Chega de Saudade to Amaro Freitas's Y'Y, here is the full story.
Impulse! Records: A Collector's Guide to Every Label Variant
The orange and black spine is one of the most recognisable sights in jazz collecting. But not every orange and black Impulse! is what it looks like. This guide covers every major US label variant from 1961 to the MCA era, with a practical method for dating any copy you pick up.
Impulse! Records: A Collector's Guide to Every Label Variant
The orange and black spine is one of the most recognisable sights in jazz collecting. But not every orange and black Impulse! is what it looks like. This guide covers every major US label variant from 1961 to the MCA era, with a practical method for dating any copy you pick up.
The Greatest Jazz Drummers: From the Back of the Bandstand
Jazz is driven from the back of the bandstand. The drummers set the energy, shape the dynamics, and more often than not lead the band. Here's the full lineage, from bebop's founding generation to the London scene rewriting the rules today — with the vinyl records that prove the case.
The Greatest Jazz Drummers: From the Back of the Bandstand
Jazz is driven from the back of the bandstand. The drummers set the energy, shape the dynamics, and more often than not lead the band. Here's the full lineage, from bebop's founding generation to the London scene rewriting the rules today — with the vinyl records that prove the case.
The 20 Best Charles Mingus Albums Ranked
Charles Mingus was the most volcanic creative force in jazz history. Bassist, composer, bandleader, and agitator, he left a discography that spans gospel fury, orchestral grandeur, and everything in between. Here are the twenty albums that define his legacy.
The 20 Best Charles Mingus Albums Ranked
Charles Mingus was the most volcanic creative force in jazz history. Bassist, composer, bandleader, and agitator, he left a discography that spans gospel fury, orchestral grandeur, and everything in between. Here are the twenty albums that define his legacy.
The Return of Spiritual Jazz: A History of the Genre and Its Contemporary Revival
Spiritual jazz never died. From John Coltrane's A Love Supreme to Kamasi Washington's The Epic, Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders' Promises to ganavya's Daughter of a Temple, we trace the history of one of jazz's most radical traditions and the contemporary artists, labels and records driving its return.
The Return of Spiritual Jazz: A History of the Genre and Its Contemporary Rev...
Spiritual jazz never died. From John Coltrane's A Love Supreme to Kamasi Washington's The Epic, Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders' Promises to ganavya's Daughter of a Temple, we trace the history of one of jazz's most radical traditions and the contemporary artists, labels and records driving its return.