Whilst it’s impossible to limit an article to just ten of the most famous saxophone players in jazz, we’ve attempted to do just that. These iconic jazz musicians have influenced not just their peers but also had a major stylistic impact on how the instrument can be played on successive generations. Sidney Bechet (soprano saxophone) … Read more
Jamile is a Brazilian jazz singer based in New York, whose potential seems to be a time bomb, as her album “If You Could See Me Now” proves… The highlights of this album point towards a future jazz singing great. To begin with, If You Could See Me Now is cool because it includes jazz standards and … Read more
Thana Alexa takes us on a poetic journey through minimalism, soul, R&B, World Music, pop, progressive rock, and jazz. “ONA” means “she” in Croatian (actually, it also does in Czech, Japanese and possibly in other languages as well). This is a mirror of the Croatian-American origins of the composer and singer Thana Alexa, who co-produced … Read more
To begin with, I must say that I was very afraid to review an album that had the term “indie jazz” in its bio, since there is already a lot of confusion with the term ‘indie’ and it is very difficult to communicate what one could be referring to. Historically, the word indie means “independent” … Read more
Looking to dive deeper into the topic of jazz piano? Here’s our round up of the most popular and famous pianists from jazz history… The role of the piano in jazz is a complicated one, and one that also leads to an exciting road of discovery and has produced a host of original and distinctive … Read more
With so much amazing jazz music out there, figuring our your favourite artists is a good step towards refining your search. Whilst there are so many new players to discover (hence our extensive new album reviews!) in this article we’ve rounded up a list of the most famous jazz musicians in history as a good … Read more
Whilst the topic of ‘best jazz songs’ is fraught with disagreement, coming up with a selection of the most famous is a slightly less daunting matter… If you look at most lists, though, they almost always roll our the same selection of bestselling songs. The problem – for musicians – is that they end up … Read more
Whilst any instrument can, in theory, play this style, there are a key collection of ‘jazz instruments’ which have established themselves as the go-to ones in this genre… As with any music genre certain instruments ‘speak’ to that idiom more clearly and emphatically than any others. Western classical music makes use of brass, woodwind and … Read more
Take your entrenched, long held understanding of big band music — give it a loving look — and then throw it out the window. Max Grynchuk Big Band’s ‘Plays Eraser Description Vol II’ is a forward thinking, future sounding take on brass and woodwinds over a rhythm section. Building on a legacy already well established … Read more
Connected by more than 10 years of musical history and companionship, renowned German pianist Christian Pabst and prolific Czech saxophonist Lubos Soukup finally realise their longstanding goal of exploring the intimate and challenging duo format with Levitas (Sept 2nd, Animal Music). Someone said the basic ingredients for a great jazz duo are little more than … Read more