Jazz Connective: one Europe

Jazz Connective this week continues a vital mission. As EU and UK talks continue, and the hideous rattle of Brexit becomes a deafening din, the need to connect jazz scenes across Europe from Lyon, Ljubljana, Łódź, Helsinki and Dublin to Birmingham …

Published: 5 Dec 2020. Updated: 3 years.

Stirring spiritual Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child performed by Archie Shepp and Jason Moran streams

Drawn from the upcoming February 2021 Archieball album Let My People Go a stirring treatment of the spiritual 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child' performed by Archie Shepp and Jason Moran is streaming. The spiritual dates back to long …

Published: 5 Dec 2020. Updated: 3 years.

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Drawn from the upcoming February 2021 Archieball album Let My People Go a stirring treatment of the spiritual 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child' performed by Archie Shepp and Jason Moran is streaming.

The spiritual dates back to long before the song was first published in 1899. Widely covered down the decades I turn to Marian Anderson, to Mahalia Jackson, and above all to OV Wright inspired by hearing this superb new treatment by two giants of jazz: together, as one.