28 luglio 2026

Se era stata Jazz in Britain l'anno scorso a pubblicare Aurora, lo splendido debutto del trio Sarost di Larry Stabbins con Paul Rogers e Mark Sanders, sarà ora la Ogun a pubblicarne il prossimo capitolo, facendolo coincidere con uno speciale concerto di presentazione tra qualche settimana al Vortex londinese: The Granite Variations.

https://www.larrystabbins.com/sarost
https://larrystabbins.bandcamp.com/the-granite-variations
https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk

27 luglio 2026

Nel numero di questo mese Musica Jazz segnala la biografia di Keith Tippett scritta da Martin Phillips per Jazz in BritainKeith Tippett: Mujician - The authorised biography. Chi finora ha esitato a procurarsi il volume (con doppio cd allegato) si sbrighi, perché presso la casa madre ne sono rimaste ormai solo cento copie.

https://www.musicajazz.it/musica-jazz-luglio-2026

26 luglio 2026

Si è concluso domenica scorsa a Bad Doberan (Germania) il più longevo e divertente degli appuntamenti filozappiani a livello internazionale, lo Zappanale, giunto quest'anno alla sua trentacinquesima edizione battagliando più del solito con problemi organizzativi, incerta disponibilità dei musicisti, condizioni meteo atroci e costi per viaggi e trasporti ormai alle stelle. Chi non ha potuto andarci di persona può fortunatamente trovarne documentazione audio e video sul web, grazie alla copertura quasi completa che da qualche tempo garantisce alla manifestazione - anche in live streaming - la berlinese rockradio.de. E tra i pur pittoreschi Brothers of Dimension, Lovers of Invention e Filthy Brillos spicca uno degli eventi più attesi, l'incontro con Pamela Des Barres, la più illustre delle storiche Girls Together Outrageously.

She fell in love with rock ’n’ roll as a little girl in sunny Reseda, swooning along to the dreamy sounds of Elvis and Dion spinning on her turntable. While she was in high school, Pamela’s friend Victor Hayden introduced her to his cousin, the psychedelic pioneer Captain Beefheart, and her odds of living a normal-formal life were obliterated. Eighteen years old, and eight miles high on an intoxicating mix of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and that burgeoning music scene over the hill, Pamela packed her bags for Hollyweird. It was just down the road by car, but it was a whole different planet from Reseda.

Pamela spent the rest of the 1960s in rock’s cradle of civilization, meeting, befriending, or dating all of her (and your) musical heroes -The Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Gram Parsons, The Who, and countless others. Once Frank Zappa got to know Pamela and her merry band of freewheelin’ girlfriends, he helped hone them into a performance art and music troupe he called the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), famously producing their only studio release, 1969’s cult classic Permanent Damage. Throughout her time opening for The Mothers of Invention with the GTOs, doing handstands in Jim Morrison’s living room, sitting in at protests, accompanying Mick Jagger to Altamont, and nannying for the Zappas, Pamela kept detailed diaries. These priceless primary sources about the birth of Los Angeles as we know it formed the basis for Pamela’s legendary memoir, I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie.

Today, Pamela Des Barres is respected as an author, journalist, creative writing instructor, podcaster, and rock historian, and is perhaps the most famous standard-bearer of a term she wears proudly: Groupie.