Music journal

Black Eyewear Woman | Sofia Grant

We speak to the leading lights of a new crop of jazz musicians changing the way the UK thinks about music. This week, london-based artist and composer Sofia Grant speaks to us about the ephemeral nature of improvised music, and how her latest record is an emotional response to climate change. With Swedish and English […]

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Jazz Documentaries for Streaming Now

Watch | Our picks of Jazz documentaries to stream now. Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser | Expanding on footage of Monk’s 1967 tour shot by Christian Blackwood, Charlotte Zwering (Gimme Shelter) has created the definitive filmic portrait of the master bop pianist-composer. This captivating film digs deeper into the life of the famously eccentric pianist-composer. […]

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Q&A with UK jazz singer Zara McFarlane

Multi-award winning singer-songwriter Zara McFarlane, is one of the UK’s finest jazz vocalists. Eloquent and provocative, her sound is distinguished by her melding of multiple influences from jazz, reggae, folk and nu-soul.  McFarlane’s debut album, 2011’s Until Tomorrow, came garlanded with rave reviews and a MOBO award nomination, and heralded a major new talent in […]

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Jazz on a Summer’s Day: Playlist

To celebrate the legendary film and festival, we’ve made a Spotify playlist that takes its inspiration from the formidable cast of jazz greats that played in 1958.

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Introducing: BLACK EYEWEAR SOUNDS

We created Black Eyewear Sounds on Spotify to share the passion for jazz music with our community.

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THE WOMEN OF JAZZ

For International Women’s Day, Black Eyewear celebrates the charismatic women whose revolutionary work and social activism shaped the contemporary music scene and the lives of generations that followed. Sister Rosetta Tharpe  “A queer black woman from Arkansas who shredded on electric guitar, belted praises both to God and secular pleasures, and broke the color line touring with white singers, […]

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Your essential jazz records

We recently asked you to share the jazz records that have moved you the most to celebrate International Jazz Day 2018.  We loved reading your stories about these albums, so we thought we’d gather them together here so we can all dip in when looking for our next recommendation. Here they are in no particular […]

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