Speaker's Corner

Commenting on this album in 1962, Billboard magazine wrote: »He seems to be everywhere, everywhere that is but on his usual instrument«. Charles Mingus, one of the most impressive musicians in the history of jazz, doesn’t play a single note on the bass fo

1955's 'Round Midnight was Miles Davis' debut release for the jazz powerhouse Columbia Records. Featuring a phenomenal supporting cast that included alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, drummer Philly Joe Jones, bassist Paul

Hardly any other musician has released so little as pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali. Just seven titles in all are his complete output, all of which he composed himself, all of them on the present Atlantic LP, and all recorded in December 1964. The saxophonist Odea

The term 'free jazz' was already in existence – but it had a quite different meaning, namely jazz without paying for an entrance ticket. The album Free Jazz, however, was intended to lend its name to a quite different style of jazz. 'Free' playing – now t