Tag: Jazz

Sérgio Mendes, who has died aged 83 after affected by the consequences of lengthy Covid, was one of the profitable Brazilian artists of all...

My uncle Graham Lyons, who has died aged 87, was a jazz and classical musician, composer and arranger.In 1967 he launched a self-penned single,...

If jazz has been caricatured down the years as an artwork type populated by an insular bunch of males scratching their beards to resolve...

The main leisure agent and producer Peter Charlesworth, who has died aged 93, was each an aide to, and confidant of, among the largest...

So distinctive was the hovering, heart-piercing sound of David Sanborn’s alto saxophone, and but so complete in its prompt evocation of the spirit of...

The drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath, who has died aged 88, was a member of probably the most distinguished American jazz households. The place the...

My father, Laurence Canty, who has died aged 74, was a bass guitarist who turned a bass guitar instructor, each as a lecturer at...

The break-up of the Joseph Holbrooke Trio didn't occur shortly after accompanying Lee Konitz on tour in March 1966, because the excellent obituary of...

Over the course of an extended profession, the American singer Marlena Shaw moved from jazz to soul and again once more, trying to find...

For a lot of his skilled life, the jazz musician Les McCann was in a position to counter the barbs of critics by pointing...

The singer, composer and guitarist Carlos Lyra, who has died aged 90, performed a key position within the growth of bossa nova, the “new...

A pivotal second within the profession of the British drummer and percussionist Tony Oxley got here when a profitable European tour as a part...

The photographer Larry Fink, who has died aged 82 from issues of kidney illness and Alzheimer’s illness, spent his life capturing the disparity and...

The jazz composer Carla Bley, who has died aged 87, created an unlimited physique of labor with emotional punch, mental attain and musical depth....