After his death aged 95, we look back at a remarkable catalogue of work that stretches from vivacious mid-50s sets to his evocative performance after 9/11
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Walter Smith III: Twio Vol 2 review – classic jazz is vividly alive in the hands of this incisive saxophonist ⊕
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The redoubtable musician and guests including Branford Marsalis and Ron Carter make standard song-shapes sparkle with focus and rugged phrasing
As the passing of time undoes established nor…
82 days ago
‘She made it sound like the cosmos breathing’: the revival of jazz harpist and pianist Alice Coltrane ⊕⊕
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The radical work of the musician and composer was dismissed by sexist critics and overshadowed by the legacy of her late husband John. But today, musical stars from Doja Cat to David Byrne all champi…
4 months ago
‘He used the trumpet as a songbird’: 100 years of Miles Davis, by jazz greats Sonny Rollins, Yazz Ahmed and more ⊕
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Ahead of the centenary of Davis’s birth, musicians including Terence Blanchard and John Scofield analyse his brilliance: from his soft phrasing and spiritual feel to his raspy cussing and leather out…
‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive ⊕⊕
He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that driv…
9 months ago
Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest rages against the new but leaves him looking too old ○
The film-maker’s ‘reinterpretation’ of the Kurosawa crime drama rails against AI, online media and new hip-hop but can’t find much new to say
“We’re jazz musicians,” the director Spike Lee recently sa…
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