From Miles Davis to Count Basie and Etta James to Prince, Rotterdam’s North Sea jazz festival has hosted the biggest names in music. As the event turns 50, musicians and organisers share their favour…
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Köln 75 review – how a legendary jazz-improv show was cajoled into being by a German teenager ⊕
Watchable biopic charts how an 18-year-old German booked the sickly American pianist Keith Jarrett for what became a landmark concert
Here is a niche drama about one of the most important chapters in…
60 days ago
Magic, mastery and magisterial power: 10 of Sonny Rollins’ greatest recordings ⊕⊕
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
• News: Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxop…
62 days ago
The Guardian view on 100 years after Miles Davis’s birth: why he still shapes modern music | Editorial ○
The trumpeter, composer and band leader still towers over jazz because he treated reinvention not as a betrayal, but as necessary for its survival
The space reserved for Miles Davis in the pantheon of…
64 days ago
Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud review – harmonic openness for Louis Malle’s haunting noir thriller ⊕⊕
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The trumpeter’s improvised soundtrack for the new wave director’s 1957 film still glows with sensuality, tension and nocturnal beauty in this lavish reissue
When Miles Davis was dying in…
3 months ago
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…
James Bond and prog rock to feature in 2026 Proms ⊕
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Concerts celebrating Benjamin Britten, Steve Reich and Miles Davis also appear in the programme.
Miroslav Vitous: Mountain Call review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month ⊖
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Jack DeJohnette and Michel Portal – both of whom died recently – are phenomenal foils for the Weather Report alumnus’s classical-influenced jazz
Czech double bass virtuoso and composer Miroslav V…
5 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…
6 months ago
‘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…