Tag: Thomas Morgan

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

In the best way the borders feel ever more porous when it comes to contemporary jazz. Beyond the infusion of Latin American and West African rhythms or European chamber music into martial airs, piano rags and hard blues grooves - aspects of jazz which are scarcely modes but for many decades now constitutional parts of the form - it...

The tenor saxophonist Mark Turner is now in the fourth decade of his career, an airy and still somehow tenuous fixture on the jazz scene from the release of Yam Yam in 1995, his debut as a leader whose quintet spotlighted a group of fellow up-and-comers including the pianist Brad Mehldau, the guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, the bassist Larry Grenadier...