The Basement, November 3 No one can ever accuse the Italians of making anaemic art. From Dante to Puccini they have never been frightened of passion and drama. If you don’t feel anything when you encounter Italian art, chances are you’re dead. Their best jazz maintains this ardour, epitomised…
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Hear Now (FMR) Trevor Watts is unrelenting. The brilliant saxophonist was a pioneer when he burst on to Britain’s jazz scene in the mid-1960s with drummer John Stevens, trombonist Paul Rutherford and Australian bassist Bruce Cale in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. He’s still a pioneer now: a genuine improviser…
It was the music she heard each week when her mother was ironing: Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Abbey Lincoln, Miles Davis and more. They seeped into Dee Alexander’s pre-school consciousness and heart and stayed there. So years later, when she took to singing, perhaps it was inevitable…