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Interview: Keith Jarrett

July 21, 2025 Add Comment

ZEN IN THE ART OF JAZZ Most musicians anchor their star to some specific quadrant of the musical galaxy, but piano virtuoso and ...

Album Review: Chie Ayado "Love"

March 12, 2023 Add Comment

Despite controlling a vast music market, the Japanese music industry craves one thing more than any amount of number one singles and alb...

Revenge Recommends: "Dig Watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock and Friends

July 16, 2020 Add Comment

This song started life in 1962 as a track on Takin’ Off , the debut album of jazz piano legend Herbie Hancock. The lyrics, co-written ...

PREVIEW: JAMIE CULLUM, JAPAN, 2006

January 14, 2015 Add Comment

Being a jazz musician is a mixed blessing. You get to be cool, but, in return, you are expected to remain underappreciated and known ...

Preview: Ornette Coleman, Japan, 2006

December 04, 2014 Add Comment

Some jazz legends have a big impact at the time, but as the years pass their influence gradually diminishes until it is forgotten. Th...

Press Image: Maceo Parker

March 13, 2014 Add Comment

In February, 2014, I did an interview with Maceo Parker, the jazz-funk sax legend, best known for his work in James Brown's band. ...

Interview: Chick Corea

May 14, 2013 Add Comment

The "Bushido" Code of Jazz In December of 2009, Chick Corea, in company with Lenny White and Stanley Clarke, played a ru...

Interview: Herbie Hancock

May 30, 2012 Add Comment

Revisiting his Countless Connections When Herbie Hancock brings his quartet to Japan this October, it will be like coming home. Thi...

Interview: Chick Corea

May 27, 2012 Add Comment

Is it possible to be creative by only emphasizing the positives? Jazz legend and keyboard tinkler extraordinaire Chick Corea certainl...

Art: Tribute to Amy Winehouse

September 08, 2011 Add Comment

Whatever her merits and demerits as a singer and a human being, Amy Winehouse was a truly iconic figure and will be sadly missed. Foll...

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RIFF RAFF was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Unfortunately, it was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-n-Jack-Daniels-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more nerdy and woke publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers... BUT it is also a place for new talent to rise and shine. So, don't be shy! In the words of the immortal Fly, send in your "news, blues, and reviews" - and even interviews if you've got the balls to buttonhole your heroes!