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Joel McIver reflects on the life and work of the late Ozzy Osbourne, who defied the exceptions of his working class upbringing and the snobbery of the musical establishment to invent a genre, selling tens of millions of albums in the process
Newly unearthed archival recordings of live dates from the 1960s, a profound homage to the swing-and-drag aesthetic of drummer Paul Motian from former collaborators, a new quintet from the veteran Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, and a thrumming quintet session from drummer Tom Skinner of The Smile are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music