If you are looking for musicians to celebrate a bassist as unmistakable and influential as Ray Brown this trio surely sits ...

For a geezer of my vintage the great and most fruitful UK jazz explosion occurred in the late 60s-early 70s, fuelled by South African expats and musicians from the West Country and then, somewhat in ...

When I interviewed guitarist Steve Khan in 2011 (the interview published in Jazz Journal in September and October 2018), I asked him about Anthony... The 22nd Scarborough Jazz Festival takes place ...

Is “punk jazz” a thing outside of the heady world of marketing? If it is then I guess this album fits the definition if it describes music that falls outside of the contemporary jazz mainstream by ...

A crisp, swinging, well-executed programme of mainstream/modern, ‘Cleopatra’s Needle’ is a splendid advertisement for British jazz. Ronnie Ross plays some of the most inventive baritone sax I have ...

The group started with a swinging minor-key tune, Big Bertha by Duke Pearson. Vincent Herring took the first solo, employing a powerful attack and hard-driving lines. Catalan guitarist Joan Fort ...

Nicole Mitchell is a renowned flautist and former chair of the AACM. Ballaké Sissoko an innovative kora player from Mali. Both are esteemed composers and both have defied convention in their ...

Yet another jazz dynasty may be upon us as Bill Evans’ grandson releases a recital of Evans compositions. Evans On Evans (Shamus Records) features Bill Evans pieces reinterpreted by the 16-year-old ...

Portrait Of A Romantic; On Hubbard’s Hill; Not Love Perhaps; Levitation; Undernote (23.18) – The Wanderer; Roundelay; The Wizzard’s Song (19.39) John Surman (bcl/r/ss/bar/syn). Recorded Oslo, Norway, ...

The ascent of saxophonist Emma Rawicz has been meteoric. Born in rural north Devon in 2002, as a child she studied classical violin and didn’t take up saxophone until her mid-teens, but by 2022, aged ...

This compilation claims to be an audiophile pressing and offers 20 well-known tracks by Charles. As a musician and entertainer, Charles was certainly an all-rounder, offering a variety of pop, blues, ...

Miles Davis arrived in Paris for a tour at the end of November 1957 and whilst there, working on the music for Louis Malle’s film Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud, played at L’Olympia and at the Club St ...