To help navigate through the jazz tag in the sidebar, here’s a roundup of some of my main posts so far. Many of them are based on playlists, as I educate myself on some substantial ouevres…
From the Golden Age:
- Lives in jazz
- Billie Holiday, and sequel
- Nina Simone
- Miles meets Bird
- Some middle-period Miles
- The great Bill Evans
- Fats Navarro
- Clifford Brown
- Lee Morgan
- The spiritual path of John Coltrane
- In memory of Wayne Shorter
- Herbie Hancock
- Pharaoh Sanders
- Chet Baker: Deep in a dream, and Chet in Italy
- Mingus
- Mary Lou Williams
- Frank Morgan
- Art Pepper
- David Murray
- Jazz at Ronnie’s!
- Jazz and Cantonese music in London
- George Melly owns up
- Thoughts inspired by Gershwin’s Rhapsody in blue.
Chet Baker https://stephenjones.blog/2017/10/28/chet/
See also
Moving on,
- Ute Lemper
- Hiromi
- Barcelona: The magic of the voice, with sequel; also Andrea Motis in London!!!
- Some jazz fiddling
- Back to black
- The lost women of British jazz
- Django Bates
- New British jazz
- Yazz Ahmed at the LJF
- Judi Jackson and Cleo Sol
- Gilad Atzmon.
Further afield,
- Midnight at the Pera Palace
- Jazz in Turkey
- Ostinato: jazz in Istanbul
- Jazz in Kuzguncuk!
- Turkish jazz in London
- Shanghai jazz
- Jazz in post-war Japan
- Polish jazz, then and now
- Tomasz Stańko (also here)
- Wind, ethnicity, gender
- Hidden histories
- Ethio-jazz (and, nearly, The honky-tonk nun)
- Jonny spielt auf
- By the sleepy lagoon
More songs:
An affectionate spoof:
And on a linguistic note: