Red Groove. Jazz writing from the Morning Star

Red Groove is a different kind of jazz book, filled with spirited and well-informed essays by a man who has listened to and loved the music passionately and critically for more than 50 years. Searle emphasises the musicians? links with the real social and political world of which they are a vital cultural part, as well as demonstrating how jazz has become a world musical phenomenon with his writing on jazzmen and jazzwomen and their musicianship, from as far apart as Japan and Argentina, Chicago and Sheffield, Bengal and Benin and Iraq, Norway, Cuba and Cape Town.

CONTENIDO

- Preface
- Introduction

Section 1: Album Reviews

- Weeping the Blues: Johnny Dodds
- Chemist of Jazzman?: Fletcher Henderson
- Struggle and Solidarity: Duke Ellington Orchestra
- Hunting Notes Together: Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Edison and the Oscar Peterson Quartet
- Hawkin' the Horn: Coleman Hawkins and Ray Bryant
- Wilson the Keys: Teddy Wilson Trio with Jo Jones
- New Orleans Birdman: George Lewis
- Intertwined Paths: Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
- Blues for an Awakening Africa: Wilton Bogey Gaynair
- Twins for Swing: Buck Clayton and Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
- Saturnian Blues: Sun Ra and his Arkestra
- Elm Park Riposte: Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, Skiffle Group and Omega Brass Band
- Raw Power of a Bass Giant: Charles Mingus / Eric Dolphy Sextet
- Under Soho Skies: Ronnie Scott and his American Friends
- Within Sacred Walls: The Michael Garrick Sextet
- Emblem of Hope: The Jimmy Woods Sextet
- A Drummer's Drummer: Phil Seamen
- The Elemental Drums: Art Blakey and the Jazz
- Into the Heart's Blood: Bud Powell
- Notes that Tell the Whole Truth: Hugh Masekela
- Reverence and Revulsion: Albert Ayler
- Breath of Genius: Roland Kirk
- A Sound of Boling Point: Sonny Simmons
- Ark, the Feral Angels Swing: Noah Howard
- Serpentine Horn: Paul Gonsalves
- 'Trane Discovery: The John Coltrane Quartet
- Two for the Duke: Ben Webster and Stan Tracey
- Freddie's Burnished Beauty: Freddie Hubbard
- Urgent Response to the Times: Chris McGregor Group
- From RAF Band to Freedom, Two Free Jazz Pioneers: Spontaneous Music Ensemble
- Pentonville Blues: Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band
- A Revolutionary Jazz Spark: Iskra 1903
- If Music Could Stop War: The Revolutionary Ensemble
- Alpha Boy: Joe Harriott / Alan Robertson
- Saturday Afternoon Resistance: Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II with Clifford Thornton
- The Last Monk: Thelonius Monk Quartet
- Never to be Erased: Derek Bailey
- True Woman Pioneer: Mary Lou Williams
- Her Flying Voice: Norma Winstone
- Clarity and Beauty: Bobby Bradford / John Carter and Bobby Bradford / John Carter and Bobby Bradford Quartet
- A Greenwich Horn: Paul Rutherford and Paul Rogers
- Inca's Message: Keith Tippett's Ark / Keith Tippett
- Tempos of Our Time: Max Roach and Archie Shepp
- In Walked Don: Don Pullen
- Sounds of Genius: Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron
- Jazz Internationalist: Trevor Watts and the Moire Drum Orchestra / Trevor Watts / Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston
- Music of Human Flesh: Anouar Brahem
- Brass Trickster: lester Bowie 7 Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy
- Birdsong Along the Lea: Mike Westbrook
- Caribbean Heart: Courtney Pine
- And Why Not?: Schweizer-Nicols-Lewis-Léandre-Sommer / Omri Ziegele Where's Africa Trio with Irène Schweizer and Makaya Ntshoko
- Salvation Blues: Harry Beckett
- Echoes of Indignation: Joe McPhee, Lisle Ellis and Paul Plimley
- Like a Melodic Seagull: Lol Coxhill
- Music to Every Ear: Francine Luce
- Ramon the Toms: Ramón López
- Rhythms of Freedom: Louis Moholo-Moholo's Viva-La-Black / The Louis Moholo-Moholo Unit
- Message to the Real World: Horace Tapscott
- Forty-One Notes: The Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio
- Walking the Lyne: Terri Lyne Carrington
- The Lament of a City: Sonny Rollins
- Batting for Jazz: Cameron Pierre / Robert Mitchell
- Challenging a US Jazz Mould: Vijay Iyer
- Foundry of Drums: Alan Skidmore, Tony Oxley and Ali Haurand / Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley / Tony Oxley and Derek Bailey
- Questions for George W: The Carla Bley Big Band
- Trio for Equals: Trio 3 / Trio 3 and Geri Allen
- Impassioned and Prophetic Notes: Charles Gayle Trio
- Sounding Rod for Past Truths: David Murray / Black Saint Quartet
- Ploughman of the Horn: Evan Parker and the Transatlantic Art Ensemble
- Reaching for the Flame: david Haney and Julian Priester
- Hybridity and Artistry: Egberto Gismonti / Charlie Haden and Egberto Gismonti
- Telling the Truth with Blues: James Blood Ulmer
- Spirit of Unity: Rudresh Mahanthappa
- From the Mississippi to the Tigris and Back: Amir ElSaffar and Hafez Modirzadeh
- A Youthful 70: The Charles Lloyd Quartet
- Bandoneon Symbiosis: Dino Saluzzi
- Worldly Neighbours: Manu Katché
- Newman's Blessing: David 'Fathead' Newman
- Blake Hits the Key of Life: Ran Blake and Enrico Rava / Ran Blake
- Another Distant Land, Another Delta: Zoë and Idris Rahman
- Searching for a Home: London Improvisers Orchestra
- Songs for Humanity: Abdullah Ibrahim
- Horn of Plenty: Dave Douglas
- Life-rooted Artistry: Aki Takase Piano Quintet
- Nordic Moments of Sonic Joy: Mathias Eick Arild Andersen / Ketil Bjornstad and Terje Rypdal
- Song for Peace: Lionel Loueke
- Trans-Pennine Message: Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano and Jan Lundgren
- Storm Cloud of Sound: Charles Tolliver
- London to Gaza: Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble / Robert Wyatt, Gilad Atzmon, Ros Stephen and the Sigamos String Quartet
- Stan the Man that Can: The Stan Tracey Octet
- Revolutionary Earth Music: Fred Ho and the Big Green Monster Band
- Old Master Cut to the Chase: Fred Anderson
- Man of Cuba, Child of Africa: Omar Puente
- Now I'm a Believer: William Parker
- The Healing Force of the Universe: Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble / Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings / Nicole Mitchell
- The Schlippenbach Smithy: Alexander von Schlippenbach / The Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio / Alexander von Schlippenbach and the Globe Unity Orchestra
- From the Life-driven Tradition: Soweto Kinch
- An African Spirit Lives On: John Donaldson's Unity
- Real Sonic Polemics: Christian Scott
- Matana the Storytelle: Matana Roberts
- Windy City Shuffle: Ernest Dawkins
- From Blue Seas, City sounds: Denys Baptiste
- From Beirut to Paris: Ibrahim Maalouf
- Crossing the Gulf: Stefon Harris, David Sánchez and Christian Scott
- Ants of History: Adam Fairhall and Paul J Rogers
- Another Jazz Journey: Arun Ghosh
- Trio-X mark the Spot: Trio-X
- A Pennine Horn: Nat Birchall

Section 2: Live Reviews

- Incendiary Meeting by the Thames: Archie Shepp and Andrew Hill
- Mosaic of Sounds: George Coleman and Julian Joseph
- Night of the Foursome: The Bobby Watson Quartet
- In the Heat of the Night: Kenny Garrett Quartet
- A Ferocious Beauty: The Mingus Big Band
- Bringing It All Back Home: David Murray Octet
- Healings the Wounds of Empire: Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya
- Blowing with the Voice of Millions: Hugh Masekela
- A Remembrance of Things Present: Junior Mance Trio
- The Dane and the Deltaman: Mulgrew Miller and Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson
- Four Feet Away: Geri Allen
- Rising from the Ashes: Pat Martino Trio
- Birdsong and Streetsong: Regina Carter
- Fire and Passion: Ryga-Rosnes Quartet
- The Glassblower: NOJO with Sam Rivers
- Pealing out the Blues: Jay McShann Quartet
- Summoning Ghosts: Oscar Peterson
- Mind-storming Notes: Amina Claudine Myers
- A Toronto Gift: Joe McPhee and the Association of Improvising Musicians, Toronto
- Enter a Land of New Sound: Liberation Music Orchestra
- Carter's Glory: James Quartet Quintet
- A Big Noise in the City: The London Jazz Festival, 2011