It's been a long time since that late May, 2013 week in Luleå, Sweden, where pianist Django Bates and his Belovèd Trio first collaborated with the renowned Norrbotten Big Band. Fully documented in the ...

July, 2008: It's been 13 years since British keyboard player and composer Django Bates released the third album in his “four seasons" series, Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze) (Winter & Winter, 1995).

2 Alan Cumming and Ewan McGregor Will Lead SUPERNOVA at Pitlochry Festival Theatre Django was a leading light in the 1980s European jazz renaissance. The Dutch Metropole Orchestra, The Brodsky Quartet ...

Bates has transcribed the album afresh, but retained the original structures and keys, and with the musical foundations unchanged, there’s an eerie double-take on first listen. Lead vocals on this ...

In the programme note which accompanied the concert, Evan Parker (pictured below by Caroline Forbes) describes the scale of Charlie Parker’s towering presence in jazz history. He is “our Leonardo, ...