Jazz Archives: 10/2025

Jack DeJohnette - Jazz Drummer - Pianist - 2015

Jazz icon and Miles Davis collaborator Jack DeJohnette dead at 83

He worked closely with legends such as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.

Oct 27, 2025

Tom Waits

The one essential solo jazz album, according to Tom Waits

A perfect morning record.

Oct 26, 2025

Gil Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man - 1971

‘The Vulture’: The forgotten novel that saved Gil-Scott Heron

A pivotal publication…

Oct 21, 2025

Anthony Jackson - Bass Player - 2007

Jazz icon Anthony Jackson dead at 73

No cause of death has been confirmed.

Oct 20, 2025

Lou Reed - Musician - 1975 - Sydney

The artists Lou Reed called musical heroes: “I love the way those guys play”

“Just my God!”

Oct 16, 2025

The best worst jazz album of all time - General

The best “worst” jazz album of all time

“An insult to the intellect of the people”.

Rachael Pimblett

Oct 10, 2025

‘Whipped Cream’- The erotic album that outsold every Beatles record in 1966

‘Whipped Cream’: The erotic album that outsold every Beatles record in 1966

A barnstorming year for sex and dairy.

Oct 6, 2025

Frank Johnson- The forgotten life of America's first true punk musician

Frank Johnson: The forgotten life of America’s first true punk musician

Changing music before it was cool.

Dale Maplethorpe

Oct 4, 2025

Miles Davis - Montreux Jazz Festival - 1989

‘Tutu’: When Miles Davis thrust jazz into the 1980s

“Miles’ sound led the whole thing”.

Oct 3, 2025

Both Directions at Once John Coltrane’s lost album and its miraculous rediscovery

‘Both Directions at Once’: John Coltrane’s “lost” album and its miraculous rediscovery

Thought to have been binned…

Oct 1, 2025