Pat Metheny is one of those special artists who’s live concerts are highly anticipated events whenever he comes to the UK. He ...

In 1960 and 1961 respectively, an up-and-coming young female vocalist made two promising LPs: Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley and The Swingin’s Mutual – the latter with the George Shearing quintet.

Drummer Roy Haynes died after a short illness on 12 November, 2024 in Nassau County, New York, aged 99. His career had spanned playing swing with Lester Young in the late 1940s through bebop with ...

Robert Johnson was a pioneer master of Mississippi Delta country blues. His tragic early death was a great loss to blues music. Dead at 27, his drink poisoned by an unknown woman, he recorded a total ...

To The Slaughter In his note for this one Soweto Kinch highlights how he considers the long-form suite that comprises this ...

Arakatak Metropole is the long-established Netherlands juggernaut jazz orchestra and, almost by definition, a minimalist ...

Paramount Quartet Long one of my favourite saxophonists, over the years Lovano has led or appeared on many a terrific session ...

The A to JazZ Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Sofia’s South Park 2, a leafy setting in one of the few European ...

This is a book of photographs taken at the recording sessions described above (and elsewhere) during the early 1960s. Before ...

You Belong Every song has something going for it on the third album by this young quintet from Denmark. Besides, it sounds ...

Take Twelve When writing about Lee Morgan, reference is almost always given to the influence of Clifford Brown, especially in ...