Europe

Jazz in Europe

Joseph Paice July 7, 2020

Attila Zoller (1927-1998) was born in Visegrád in the North of Hungary. His father was a violinist and music teacher...

Joseph Paice July 6, 2020

Pianist Jutta Hipp (1925-2003) had a sadly truncated career - her first recordings were in 1952, her last in 1956...

Joseph Paice July 3, 2020

Born in St Vincent, Ellsworth Keane (1927-1997) was taught music from an early age by his father. He played trumpet...

Joseph Paice July 2, 2020

Trumpeter Ian Carr (1933-2005) was one of the most influential bandleaders of the 1960s and 70s. He was born in...

Joseph Paice June 29, 2020

Born in Basel, Switzerland, George Gruntz (1932-2013) was gifted enough at the piano to study at Zurich's conservatoire from the...

Joseph Paice June 26, 2020

Duško Gojković (born 1931) is a Serbian trumpeter, who established himself as a key figure in European jazz from the...

Joseph Paice June 25, 2020

Mongezi Feza (1945-1975) was only 30 years old when he died, but in his short life he had a big...

Joseph Paice June 24, 2020

Bassist Coleridge Goode (1914-2015) had a rich, varied and very long career after moving to the UK in 1934, where...

Joseph Paice June 22, 2020

George Chisholm (1915-1997) was one of the first UK jazz musicians to attain a level of musicianship and improvisational skills...

Joseph Paice June 18, 2020

Harry Beckett (1923-2010) had one of the most distinctive trumpet sounds in British jazz. Born in Barbados, he took up...