Welsh born, New Orleans-based chanteuse Judith Owen has just released her 15th album. Backed by her 17-piece J.O. Big Band, ...

This previously unreleased live double album from Copenhagen’s Jazzhus Montmartre features the French master in a magnificent ...

Darius Brubeck has “played the changes” both as a musician, and politically, through deep involvement in the cultural ...

Thirty years ago Michael Tucker hailed the classical-jazz fusion that Tony Coe went on to describe in a 2004 listening test ...

Fifty years ago Barry McRae witnessed a London jazz festival that catered for all shades of jazz opinion, from Bobby Hackett ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert traced Miles Davis's journey from lumpen rock-jammer to sophisticated jazz-rocker through seven ...

Ostrów’s series of jazz concerts titled “Jazz at the Museum” celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The originator of the ...

Alain Gerber is a noted writer on jazz but also, to the wider French public, a highly acclaimed writer of fiction. He has ...

Sixty years ago the famed blues singer opined on Jay McShann, Stan Getz, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and others, and ...

Returning To Forever (Candid CAN 33352) Following my review last month of the Del Sasso Big Band’s revisioning of Chick Corea ...

Sixty years ago Steve Voce was pleasantly surprised to find that having a bunch of addicts record together wasn't maudlin and ...

Thirty years ago Richard Palmer loved a duo between pianist Newton and the saxophonist who asked, in the first throes of the ...