This category is just me revisiting some recordings that meant a lot. It’s an idea I toyed with last year,…
29. African roots
Now Listen Here ((Thul’ulalele). Mike Gibbs. From Nonsequence, 2001 Anything Mike Gibbs had a hand in is worth listening to,…
28. Ugly beauty
Patricia, Art Pepper. From Art Pepper: Today, 1978 When this album came my way I’d never heard of Art Pepper.…
27. Free flight
A Prayer for Peace. From Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams, 1974 Here’s a pianist who never achieved the wider fame…
26. What’s in a name?
Iron Man. From Morning Glory (John Surman), 1973 The boring jazz name for this Euro-jazz supergroup would have been the…
Gigs are back…
You’ve probably noticed that gigs are starting up again – at Breaking Bread, The BeBop club (next month), and elsewhere.…
25. Roads not taken
Statues. From Jack Bruce, Things we Like, 1968 Some famous names on this one. I guess I bought the record…
24. Perfecting one’s style
Rag. From Bill Frisell, This Land, 1992. Here’s another player who needs no recommendation from me. The most influential guitar…
23. Twin peaks – an ideal collaboration
Abdullah Ibrahim and Carlos Ward, Live at Sweet Basil, 1983 Abdullah Ibrahim threads through decades of jazz listening, a towering…
22. Spirits rejoice!
Amaxesha Osizi (Times Of Sorrow). From Louis Moholo Octet, Spirits Rejoice!, 1978 . No chance of a finding a better…
21. Theme for a life, and a lifetime
Flowers for Albert. From David Murray, Flowers for Albert, 1976. My week centred on a family funeral so this track,…
