Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
Otis Taylor
My World Is Gone (Telarc)
OTIS TAYLOR calls his compelling sound “trance blues,” an amalgam of jazz riffs, blues realism, rock inflections, stark social and political commentary and powerful musicianship.
Born in Chicago in 1948, Taylor made a reversal of many a great blues singer’s journey by moving out of the Windy City as a child, when his parents took him back with them to their home city of Denver. He grew up listening to his father’s jazz records, head the compulsive repetitive beat of John Lee Hooker’s blues and dedicated himself to learning banjo, guitar and harmonica, while also playing bass in a rock band called Zephyr, based in Boulder, Colorado.
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
New releases from Old Spot, Chris Marksberry, and Clementine Lovell
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Filipino-US saxophonist JON IRABAGON about the threat of AI in the time of Musk and Trump, and how an artist can respond
As part of the 2025 London Jazz Festival Rich Mix offered intriguing sessions titled 'Persian Jazz,' CHRIS SEARLE was there



