When pianist Rachael Z released the track Bodhisattva ahead of Sensual, her 13th solo album, one at first assumed it would be a jazzed-up cover of the 70s Steely Dan song. What streamed was a slick re ...

This particular album contains Dave Brubeck’s impressions of a trip to Japan in the spring of 1964, and the music is just about as pointless and pretentious as any­thing he has ever recorded. Giving ...

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Features Tony Coe: ‘The first prerequisite is that it should be honest’ To mark the death of Tony Coe we republish an article in which he comments on Basie, the Beatles, Jan Garbarek, modal and free ...

I have to admit that I found listening to this album rather tedious. With the exception of The Time, the tracks have a sameness about them and, as you might expect, each is dominated by Ginger Baker’s ...