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Classical influences 

At the turn of the 20th century, the classical tradition of Western music could look back on a continuous evolutionary cycle that stretched back to...

Identity crisis 

The re-release of Europeana, an evanescent album by pianist Joachim Kühn and the Hanover Philharmonic Orchestra, once again raises...

Class act 

Like footsteps in the sands of time, record companies have provided the raw material around which jazz history has been constructed -- RCA Victor,...

big squeeze, The 

Jazz in the new millennium is in a very different world from that of the idealised television retrospective Jazz, directed by the American...

HOGMAN-HOORAY 

A MUM is holding a special Hogmanay party to celebrate her "dead" son's escape from the Asian tsunami.

Margaret Purves, 58, and...

Ikea offer flat-pack houses 

FURNITURE giants Ikea aim to tackle Scotland's affordable housing shortage by building "homes in a box".

The flat-pack houses,...

Nordic blues 

Jazz As every American is at pains to insist, jazz is American. And in the sense that America was where it originated and America was where it...

Cry freedom 

Jazz Cry freedom Jazz can be, and often was, a music of protest. Sometimes it was covert, such as the elegantly raised eyebrow of Duke Ellington at...

Moving on 

The sound of jazz is changing. Suddenly we're on the threshold of a new way of hearing the music. More and more albums have credits for mysterious...

Dangerous sounds 

Jazz The Bad Plus have been a long time coming. With a lot of recent American jazz shaped in the styles of 40 years ago, the famed `sound of...