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February 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Jazz Right In Your Face: Ten Important Jazz Albums In My Life

You know the drill by now – here’s the catch-all blurb/explanation I’ve created for these sorts of lists We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” I […]

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September 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Mingus

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady is pumping. But there’s no time for jumping. The only jitters are the ones in the soul. And they’ll be dead and buried, dragged down in some hole eventually. But right now The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady is the only truth. Listen hard. As it plays […]

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March 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 735

Joni Mitchell, Mingus (1979) Of course I always liked this record – and owned it – it’s a Joni Mitchell record after all, but I was never as enamoured with it as so many of the others, a difficult record, a bit unfinished, bits and pieces, which of course is part of its charm and […]

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December 27, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle – Provocative in Blue

Terri Lyne Carrington Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue Concord Jazz It’s best not to look too hard at how this version of Money Jungle (a brand new album that is part-tribute, part-extrapolation, part-palinode) measures up (or doesn’t) to the legendary recording by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach. The point, here, is that with […]