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 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...
5 Distinctive Miles Davis covers
From the subtly reexamined to the near-total makeover, here are 5* of the more interesting Miles Davis covers out there... *NOTE: I could...
