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‘Jazz isn’t about perfection’: drummer Billy Cobham on Miles Davis, Massive Attack and still learning at 80

After a grounding with genre greats, he fused jazz with rock to outrageously funky effect. Ahead of UK dates, he explains why two prosthetic hips aren’t slowing him down

Billy Cobham speaks the way he…

45 days ago

59 days ago

‘The blue blues have never left us’: a new book examines the color’s spanning ties to Black culture

Imani Perry’s Black in Blues traces the ways blue is woven through Black history, from Miles Davis to Toni Morrison

What makes blue Black?

In her latest book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Stor…

81 days ago

‘The Köln Concert is the hit he wants to disown’: why Keith Jarrett shunned two new films about his unlikely masterpiece

His back hurt and his piano was substandard. But the musician’s improvised 1975 show entered jazz history. Now two films are celebrating that mesmerising night – and the sweary teen promoter who made…

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