AQ jazz writer eulogises his more modern 1979 year of pop culture as seminal to his tastes and creation of the habit of buying vinyl to
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Results25Anger and Intelligence: Jazz and Civil Rights
AQ special music culture report by Phil Brett Exclusive latest content from Audio Quarterly Magazine The perception and appreciation of music, as with any artform, can change
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John Coltrane: The complete 1961 Village Vanguard recordings. Produced by Bob Thiele. Impulse IMPD4-232
Unquestionably John Coltrane stands as a colossus of modern music. With maybe only the exception of Lisa from The Simpsons, every major sax player has been
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Gerard Presencer – Platypus – Audio Quarterly Magazine. Linn Records.
Gerard Presencer is probably best known as the young trumpeter who played on the US3 mega hit of “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)”, although his debut album, “Platypus”
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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. Buhaina.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Buhaina, produced by Orrin Keepnews. BGP records BGPD 1114 Originally released on Prestige in 1973, Buhaina has been re-released by
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Art Pepper: “So in Love”
Art Pepper: So in Love Produced by John Snyder and Laurie Pepper Analogue productions revival series. APR 3013. “So in Love by Art Pepper”: another release
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The Naim Story part II
masters of the universe Naim and Linn together grew very rapidly throughout the Seventies, so by the early Eighties both were becoming quite big fish in
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The Naim Story
masters of the universe part I Founded at the beginning of the Seventies, just before the British hifi industry went through its deepest ever recession, Naim
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Pink Triangle Tarantella
AQ reports on the story of the Pink Triangle Tarantella turntable Archive text to be soon published from Audio Quarterly editon one.
COURTNEY PINE JAZZ’S URBAN NARRATOR
I like jazz, but I like popular music. So I like to hear a vocal song, for example, it a melody I can hum along to.
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