Thank you to my friend, the wonderful drummer Adam Nussbaum for taking time between touring and his fortieth wedding anniversary celebrations (congratulations!) to discuss the incomparable Roy Haynes (RIP). Read it on ⁦⁦UK Jazz News⁩ ukjazznews.com/remembering-ro…

Since receiving an advanced review copy a few weeks ago, I have not been able to stop listening to this. McCoy, Joe Hen, DeJohnette & Henry Grimes sound unbelievable together! ‘Forces of Nature’ is out today. My full review for ⁦UK Jazz News⁩: ukjazznews.com/mccoy-tyner-jo…

10/10

Happy Birthday Billy Hart! The great drummer is 84 today. (Jabali is also ageless, I took this photo in August.)

This has always been the first Trane record I would grab in a fire bar none (in the original LP configuration, not the CD, which changed the program).

Learn blues piano with UK pianist Paddy Milner - UK Jazz News ukjazznews.com/learn-blues-pi… by Charlie Rees UK Jazz News Paddy Milner ⚡️ The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins #NickyHopkins #TheSessionMan

Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Super Sky Point to Rickey Henderson, the greatest leadoff man and base stealer to ever set foot on a baseball diamond. I’m stunned. Some guys seem larger than mortality. Rickey was one of them. #RIP

I'm really missing Martin Hummel Martin Hummel . His death, far too soon, is a huge loss for the entire UK jazz scene. I wrote about him for the German magazine Magazin für Jazz in 2021. In sadness. jazzthetik.de/kolumne-11-12-…

I love Stan Getz. Raw emotion whatever he is playing.

Marty Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995)

Joe Henderson

New acquisition, 1965. Never owned a nice copy but a current writing project required a close listen. Found a pristine copy on Discogs for a good price. By far the most rewarding late-Trane, aside from the sublime Interstellar Space, which as a duet LP inhabits a separate space.

John Coltrane performing “Afro Blue” with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums live in 1963.

70 years ago today, Frank Sinatra released “In the Wee Small Hours” The album's songs deal with themes such as introspection, melancholy, lost love, failed relationships, depression and night life; as such, it has been called one of the first concept albums…

I am so touched by this review of our gig with the Steven Nichols Quintet at ⁦Vortex Jazz Club⁩ the other night. Thank you, ⁦Sebastian Scotney⁩. As always, you captured the events and surrounding mood perfectly. ukjazznews.com/steven-nichols…

Thelonious Monk and Keith Jarrett, July 1975/The Meeting by Mitsuhiro Sugawara

Happy 79th birthday to the force of nature that is Dave Liebman! My peers and I played this to death in the 1980s. share.google/Qzft48pSkv94U0…

tonight

It’s taken me a few days to process the sad news of Tony Bianco’s sudden passing. He was truly an unsung hero of jazz drums here in the UK. I hope I’ve done him justice with this tribute for ⁦UK Jazz News⁩: ukjazznews.com/rip-tony-bianc…