The Daily Jazz

'Live At The Village Vanguard Again' is the stub of a (lost) longer recording of a 1966 show featuring Trane, Pharoah Sanders on ten...

Alan Treadwell DaSilva played bass on a number of noteworthy recordings during the 1960s, including Cecil Taylor's mighty ' Unit Str...

Don't worry guys, I've got the message. I was just looking at my traffic, and once again I see that the hits per day have dropped by...

I got into Weather Report in totally the reverse order. Growing up, my dad often played ' Heavy Weather ', with the track 'Birdl...

This cover has little going for it, although it's not bad considering the period and style of music. The question is, though - what'...

Way back in december last year I reviewed Pharoah's 1976 LP ' Pharoah '. I noted that it was, by and large, a laid back funky sl...

I'm unsure what attracts me towards free jazz sometimes. There's the unbridled creativity, of course, and the 'living-in-the-mom...

Something of a pioneer of the harp as a jazz instrument, Dorothy Ashby was born plain Dorothy Thompson in Detroit in 1932. Somehow she mana...

The Bop guys had no problem in plundering contemporary popular music for source material, so it's a mystery why many players keep on reh...

Apologies if you've been trying to listen to the Radical Reconstructive Surgery track on the radio player. For some reason that I can...

This was a bit of a random purchase, but a good one all the same. It's even more surprising when you consider the background to the reco...

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...