Jazz in Mongolia
From 1924, Mongolian People's Republic was heavily influenced by Soviet Russia, and this proved a similar hindrance to the arrival...
From 1924, Mongolian People's Republic was heavily influenced by Soviet Russia, and this proved a similar hindrance to the arrival...
Born in Dairen, Manchuria, Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) moved with her family to Japan in 1946. By the end of...
Albert Mangelsdorff (1928-2005) was a regular German Jazz Echo poll winner on trombone in the 1950s, playing in some of...
Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1969) is probably better known today as a film composer, especially for his scores for some of Roman...
Between the wars, and following Poland's renewed independence in 1918, dance bands were hugely popular. A generation of Polish-Jewish musicians...
Born in St Petersburg in 1961, Russian saxophonist Igor Butman studied clarinet at the Rimsky-Korsakov School of Music, where he...
The period following Sudan's independence from Britain in 1956 was a period of artistic freedom, at least in the capital...
Born in Canada, Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014) was a pivotal figure in British jazz across more than six decades, following his...
Norma Winstone (born 1941) first attracted attention in the late 60s appearing at Ronnie Scott's on the same bill as...
Jamaican trumpeter Dizzy Reece (born 1931) had a short UK career before moving to New York in 1959, but this...