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Reviews Audio Reviews Ron Caines, Martin Archer, AXIS: Practical Dreamers No tubas or banjos, but an electro-acoustic framework and real-time laptop improvisations, all topped off with saxophone ...

Junior Cook (1934-1992) occupies a paradoxical space, simultaneously one of those tenor saxophone mainstays of hard bop era yet often forgotten or left off of “the lists”. Cook arguably was best known ...

Features When Mingus met Mitchell Matthew Barton considers the sometimes fraught transformation of Mingus's farewell project at the hands of iconoclast Joni Mitchell ...

She might have grown up in rural Devon but the virtuoso saxophone playing of Emma Rawicz has put her at centre of metropolitan attention ...

Contemporary jazz is frequently packed into a neat little box, with straight edges reinforced by convention and thick padding gleaned from expensive academic institutes. Anna Webber has the skill and ...