Toshiko Akiyoshi
Born in Dairen, Manchuria, Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) moved with her family to Japan in 1946. By the end of...
Year: 2020
Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff (1928-2005) was a regular German Jazz Echo poll winner on trombone in the 1950s, playing in some of...
Krzysztof Komeda
Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969) is probably better known today as a film composer, especially for his scores for some of Roman...
Jazz In Poland
Between the wars, and following Poland's renewed independence in 1918, dance bands were hugely popular. A generation of Polish-Jewish musicians...
Igor Butman
Born in St Petersburg in 1961, Russian saxophonist Igor Butman studied clarinet at the Rimsky-Korsakov School of Music, where he...
Jazz in Sudan
The period following Sudan's independence from Britain in 1956 was a period of artistic freedom, at least in the capital...
Kenny Wheeler
Born in Canada, Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014) was a pivotal figure in British jazz across more than six decades, following his...
Norma Winstone
Norma Winstone (born 1941) first attracted attention in the late 60s appearing at Ronnie Scott's on the same bill as...
Dizzy Reece
Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reece (born 1931) had a short UK career before moving to New York in 1959, but this...
Ivy Benson
Ivy Benson (1913-1993) led an all female big band was one of the most popular British jazz orchestras in post-war...
