When You Get There.....

There was plenty of Mike Nock on the apartment airways during 2015 and I’m only just starting to catch up on things now. It was exciting to...

During the trip home over Christmas and New Year I managed to squeeze in a trip to  Slow Boat Records . Pushed for time, I planned to rush i...

Recorded on this day back in 1960 was Ornette Coleman 's Free Jazz . Here is the review that appeared in the January 18, 1962 issue of D...

LeRoi Jones' (Amiri Baraka) feature on Don Cherry (b. Nov 18, 1936) from the November 21, 1963 issue of Down Beat Magazine. Click on ima...

I have added a new page of Jazz Links  featuring radio stations, research journals, magazine, blogs, podcasts and discographies. The link wi...

Solomon Ilori and his Afro-Drum Ensemble : African High Life (Blue Note). I was on the lookout for Art Blakey's The African Beat  whe...

As a youngster just getting into jazz, Mike Nock (b. Sept 27, 1940) was the first New Zealand jazz musician I was aware of who had "m...