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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...

I delved into the 27-CD set between September 2024 and April 2025, and these tracks — roughly amounting to a double LP — are my picks among ...

Jazz on Screen: Symphonies in Black: Duke Ellington Shorts Tue 19 Nov 2024, 18:30, Location: Barbican Cinema 3 Introduction to the screening...

Duke Ellington behind the scene of Paris Blues (1961) with Billy Strayhorn (left), director Martin Ritt, Louis Armstrong and production desi...

Bert Dahlander | Skål: Bert Dahlander And His Swedish Jazz —Verve MG V-8253 Tracks: How Do You Do; Johnson’s Wax; When Lights Are Low; Hip S...

Black & Tan Symphonies in Black: Duke Ellington Shorts A programme by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Ehsan Khoshbakht (Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bolo...

Duke Ellington (live TV broadcast control room) photo by Gordon Parks, 1960. (c) Gordon Parks Foundation. "Parks was seventeen when, in...

Nat Hentoff Original Liner Notes: Ahmad Jamal 's The Legendary Okeh & Epic Sessions ,1951-55 A few years ago Miles Davis, A...

Photo © Daniel Sheehan. Source . L et's start with an enlightening fact: do you know what ahmad jamal means? Obviously it is an Ara...

A shot from Duke Ellington in Isfahan   Duke Ellington in Isfahan is a short film that the author of this blog (Ehsan Khoshbakht) made in ...