Ted Gioia is a musical thinker, as well as a jazz critic and historian – his concept of the aesthetics of imperfection has inspired reconsideration of the relationship between improvisation and ...

Junior Cook (1934-1992) occupies a paradoxical space, simultaneously one of those tenor saxophone mainstays of hard bop era yet often forgotten or left off of “the lists”. Cook arguably was best known ...

Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) has probably been “anthologised” on LP and CD more than any other female jazz singer, including Ella and Billie. This latest addition to her already enormous discography ...

The title could be misleading, since this volume deals with only one, albeit charac­teristic, aspect of Coltrane’s harmony. Produced in the same manuscript size as other Aebersold publications, the ...

This is an excellently assembled documentary which tells us a good deal more about Basie as a person than could be gleaned from his autobiography. The makers had access to some private letters and ...

Surman’s fourth solo album breaks no new ground but confirms his stature as one of today’s finest improvisers and arrangers, Surman overdubbing his own instrumental lines into position as if fronting ...

Mark Gilbert reviewed this set when it appeared as a double album two years ago (JJ, July 1987). I reviewed the first volume in April 1987, and both of us agreed that here was an institu­tion taking ...