Shades of Blue By James Kaplan, Translated by Kim Jae-sung, Epoch, 660 pages, 42,000 Korean won Jazz was above all a dazzling ...
The token jazz album has always been something of an anomaly in the history of the Mercury Music Prize. It’s the giant watermelon that gets presented for a “Best Marrow” competition at a village fete; ...
Where has Charles Bell been all my life? Or, rather, where have his recordings been? Why did I only find out about them now? How have I only now, fifty-plus years after getting into jazz, stumbled ...