The Daily Jazz

Nils Petter Molvaer - Solid Ether/Recoloured Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer started out playing 'nu jazz' with Masqualero ...

ANDREW HILL - Black Fire If I had to pick a favourite pianist I would find it very difficult, but Andrew Hill would have to be on the list....

Album - Back To The Tracks Recorded - 1960 Those of you who've been reading for a while will know how much of a Tina Brooks fan i am. ...

Album - Marion Brown Quartet Recorded - 1966 Thought i'd post another Marion Brown on the radio player. If you're not familiar wit...

Album - Three For Shepp Recorded - 1966 Altoist Marion Brown came to prominence with his appearance on John Coltrane's seminal 'As...

Not sure what this is all about - read the full story at Surreality Times - but it looks as if legendary Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson is tak...

Album - Bashin' Recorded - 1962 What better for a night when I'm in a big band mood than this? Coming right at the start of Jimmy ...

Album - Blue Juice Vol. 2 Recorded - 1977 No apologies here - i'm sure some of you will complain that this "isn't jazz",...

Album - Lights Out (Also reissued on Contour , 1977) Recorded - 1956 I'm a bit tired tonight after a busy weekend, so what better than...

Album - Saxophone Improvisations Series F Recorded - 1972 There's something about the saxophone that makes it sound like the most huma...

Album - Village of The Pharoahs Recorded - 1973 Pharoah Sanders' impulse! albums of the late 1960s and early 1970s are some of the bes...

Album - Thousand Finger Man/ Best of Blue Juice Recorded - 1969 We're basking in something of a heatwave here at dailyjazz towers, so ...

Album - The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Art Blakey's 1960 Jazz Messengers (also 'Like Someone In Love' Blue Note 4245) Rec...

Album - Indeed! Recorded - 1956 Credited to one Owen Marshall (about whom the internet is strangely silent), 'Gaza Strip' was the ...

Album - Big Band Bossa Nova Recorded - 1962 It might be considered cheating, writing about this on a blog that celebrates spontaneous, imp...

Album - Keep Your Soul Together Recorded 1973 A fine and funky bit of soul jazz from trumpeter Freddie Hubbard in 1973. Ron Carter provide...

Album - Let 'Em Roll Recorded - 1965 It's hard to believe that in 1965 it was considered odd to introduce a vibraphone to a soul j...

Album - Black Rhythm Happening Recorded - 1969 Trumpeter Eddie Gale recorded this in '69 in a rare headlining appearance for the man w...

Album - Parisian Concert Recorded - 1977 From his straightahead period comes an Archie that might be unfamiliar to those raised on a diet ...

Album - Ptah, The El-Daoud Recorded - 1970 What's so easy to forget, when listening to the ambient wash of some of Alice's soundscap...