Alan Braufman: “I’m still trying to clarify that sound”
From hearing Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders as a teenager to 501 Canal Street, the rediscovery of ‘Valley of Search’ and the new ‘Anthem for Peace’, Alan Braufman...
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Jan Lankisch Interview | How Marshall Allen’s ‘New Dawn’ Came Together
There were only two afternoons. Marshall Allen had turned 100 two days earlier, the musicians were gathered in a Philadelphia studio, and Jan Lankisch still had no real...
Leszek Możdżer Interview: Miłość, Chopin, Komeda and the Decaphonic Piano
Ahead of his appearance at the Polish Jazz Festival in London, Leszek Możdżer looks back on Miłość and the early yass years, his encounters with Chopin and Komeda,...
EABS Interview: From Wrocław Beat Sessions to Komeda, Sun Ra and Stańko
As EABS prepare to open the Polish Jazz Festival in London, Marek 'Latarnik' Pędziwiatr talks about the beginnings of the group in Wrocław, making beats from records, Komeda,...
Denny Zeitlin: Jazz Pianist, Composer and Psychiatrist on a Life of Improvisation
Denny Zeitlin is an American pianist, composer, improviser and psychiatrist who has, for more than six decades, sustained two demanding careers in parallel. Born in Chicago in 1938,...
John Surman Interview | A Life in Improvisation and Sound
John Surman has spent more than six decades following sounds wherever they led. He began as a choirboy in Plymouth, picked up the clarinet and baritone saxophone as...
Evan Parker Interview | Six Decades of Listening, Risk and Free Improvisation
Evan Parker discusses Cecil Taylor, John Stevens, Derek Bailey, Incus, solo saxophone, electronics and ‘The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc.’ For more than six decades, Evan Parker has been a...
William Hooker Discusses New Album ‘Convergence: Live In China’
"Oh my god, music and sound is endless. It's always all the things you just said. It never ends... it is just like LIFE." That is William Hooker...
Billy Cobham: Past and Present on ‘Times of My Life’
The drummer on Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, ‘Spectrum’ and ‘Times of My Life’. Billy Cobham has been part of the story of jazz fusion for more than fifty...
You Can’t Franchise Devotion: Inside Japan’s Jazz Kissa
Jazz kissa are often presented outside Japan as mysterious places governed by strict habits and an almost religious attitude towards sound. That image is not entirely false, but...