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Thursday, September 10, 2026

Cinema at 33⅓ RPM: Movie Themes Interpreted by Jazz Musicians

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A slightly different edit of a piece originally published in MUBI Notebook in June 2015. Click on each title for the YouTube links. — EK Jaz...
Monday, September 7, 2026

Film review: Everybody Digs Bill Evans

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  Three Suicides and an Album By Ehsan Khoshbakht Synopsis:  At the height of his fame, tragedy strikes when jazz pianist Bill Evans loses h...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Remembering Tubby Hayes

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Tubby Hayes is the best jazzman I have known from England. His fiery style is a unique combination of John Coltrane (tenor), Yusef Lateef...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

London Screening of Two Jazz Doc Gems: Jazz In Exile – "Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe" + "Cecil Taylor à Paris"

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Big Ben Jazz on Screen at the Barbican, Cinema 1, Sun 16 Nov 2025 Jazz In Exile – Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe & Cecil Taylor à Paris ...

Jazz on a Summer's Day Blu-ray Review

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Review of the Blu-ray release for  Sight & Sound , March-April 2023. – EK Jazz on a Summer's Day (Bert Stern, 1959) The annual Newpo...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (Fred Waller, 1935)

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D uke Ellington receives a telegram reminding him of his forthcoming concert in two weeks’ time—not a terribly long notice for finishing an ...

Jammin' the Blues (Djon Mili, 1944)

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Like Forough Farrokhzad and Jean Genet, the Albanian-born Djon Mili belongs to that small group of artists who, when counted officially (the...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

The Day Shostakovich Went to a Cannonball Adderley Gig — and Didn’t Get the Music | By Ralph J. Gleason

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Early this year a group of U.S. longhair composers, including Ulysses Kaye, a nephew of King Oliver, visited Russia as part of a cultural ex...
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The October Suite (Steve Kuhn & Gary McFarland, 1966) | Original liner notes by Nat Hentoff

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So far Steve Kuhn has primarily been heard in two contexts—as a sideman and as leader of a trio. This album, however, focuses on him as solo...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Cecil Taylor in Paris (1968)

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The brand-new restoration of  Cecil Taylor à Paris , courtesy of INA, will be premiered at the 2025 edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato. – EK “He...