Features
John Etheridge profiles
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Virtuoso guitarist John Etheridge has long been regarded as a lynchpin between the disparate but nevertheless related strands of UK and European jazz
Theo Travis Band profile
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Multi-reedist Theo Travis's melodic and astute institue in his bold improvising, always a treat live as both an outstanding improviser and composer,
Tomasz Stanko Quartet profile
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices from the ECM school of coolly European jazz;
George Duke profile
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Keyboard legend George Duke has a list of musical credentials as-long-as your arm, that for the record includes starting life as Al Jarreau’s pianist, kicking jazz fusion into gear with Jean-Luc Ponty, getting freaky with Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention circa 1970 before turning it loose with Cannonball Adderley,
Julien Lourau profile
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Paris-based saxophonist Julien Lourau seemed to be heading into the now overpopulated realms of electro-jazz / dance fusion,
Nils Landgren profile
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Exuberant Norwegian trombonist Nils Landgren, known mainly as the leader of his crowd-pleasing Funk Unit,
Viktoria Tolstoy profile
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Singer Viktoria Tolstoy was the first Swedish jazz artist to record for Blue Note, 1997 album ‘The White Russian’,
Apollo Saxophone Quartet profile
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Hugely acclaimed the Apollo Saxophone Quartet play pieces by Richard Rodney Bennett, Django Bates, Bob Mintzer and Michael Nyman,
Nguyên Lê profile
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Vietnamese guitar virtuoso Nguyên Lê has carved himself a unique position as a fusion guitarist whose improvisational and technical prowess