Reviews, concert reports and
photographs of an extensive range of
improvised and jazz-related music

An unearthed clandestine fragment of Jazz adaptability is this aptly titled The Secret Session. Covertly recorded despite the AFM’S 1942 recording ban, it’s captures how some Swing musicians were stretching the music’s contours even before the post-war Bop revolution. Steps are tentative since these big band defectors are mostly still cossetted in the musical styles of the day. But this mixture of standards and originals offer glimpse of future innovators at the near genesis of their… Read More