This month we review: Shabaka And The Ancestors, Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow, Kurt Elling Featuring Danilo Pérez and Pete Whittaker/Art Themen/George Double.
Steve Harris brings you the story of the influential audiophile jazz label
History books tell you that jazz first crossed the Atlantic with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who made their first records in 1917 and came to England in 1919. And that it was the coincidentally-named orchestra leader and composer James Reese Europe who first brought genuine African-American music to French ears with his black US army band in 1918.
This month we review: Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band, Scott Hamilton Quartet, Edmar Castaneda/Grégoire Maret and Zhenya Strigalev/Federico Dannemann.
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