Barry McRae argued that where such as George Chisholm, Victor Feldman, Joe Harriott and John Surman would sound outstanding ...

Reg Cooper saw an American original play his first English date and painted an informative picture of his past and present ...

David Rosenthal noted how well Bill Evans, a white musician likely familiar at first with only the crude and very simple ...

Sixty years ago, before his UK work permit expired, Mark Murphy remarked on such as Jimmy Rushing, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe ...

Gerald Lascelles complimented Previn's technique and performance but in jazz terms found his work shallow and predictable ...

By the time this album was recorded in Rome in the spring of 1968 the Argentinian Barbieri had already made something of a ...

Sinclair Traill thought Young a tasteful organist and creative composer who, with Sam Rivers, Grant Green and Elvin Jones, ...

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, has evolved over the last 20 years from its original format of ...

My reviews of Kjetil Husebø’s recent ambient jazz projects have spoken of the Norwegian pianist-composer’s solid grounding in ...

Paul van Kessel’s voice is like a roasted chestnut on an open fire, laced with a trace of smooth soul. He works its fragility ...

Australian jazz composer Jenna Cave identifies the concept of “grief literacy”, which might be defined as the means of giving ...

It’s absolutely clear where this quartet’s heart lies from one look at the material and its composers. As well as Golson’s ...