10 Seconds: Part 9.5 (Transgressors)
They didn't play fair but they didn't play fair in style, and that kind of enterprise deserves its own show. CRIME SHEET SUMMARY 1. 7...
10 Seconds: Part Three (picks 35-52)
Eighteen more 10-second picks and we've now eased past the 50 mark Remember, every selecting artist's name is hyperlinked, so click for...
10 Seconds: Part One (picks 1-16)
"I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn’t trust your health to an electrician." Paul Bley I've...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 6: 21-24)
21. George Dumpson's Place (Ed Emshwiller, 1965) Bill Lee & Jay Berliner “Emshwiller is mad, truly mad. Only mediocre craftsmen are like...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 5: 17-20)
17. Hermann Slobbe (Johan van der Keuken, 1966) Archie Shepp When making a film about blind children a few years earlier, Van Der Keuken...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 3: 9-12)
9. Catalog (John Whitney 1961) Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman: the name alone is a resonance of risk, of risk itself. Ornette Coleman on...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 2: 5-8)
5. At Dawn Overcoming all Difficulties (Jannik Hastrup, 1972) Yusef Lateef This is one of Hastrup’s six animated shorts on the history of...
Unseen: Jazz in shorts (Part 1: 1-4)
1.Herbie (George Lucas, Paul Golding, 1966) Herbie Hancock In contemporary parlance, wanky. I do have a thing for wanky 16mm though, even...
4 striking Lee Morgan covers
Joey DeFrancesco - Ceora (2002) LP Title: Live: The Authorized Bootleg Joey DeFrancesco (organ) George Coleman (tenor sax) Jake Langley...
Dear John: 5 Naimas
Written as a love letter to his first wife, Naima Grubb, of all the compositions on John Coltrane’s mighty “Giant Steps”, “Naima” is the...
