Burnett James really admired the musicality of Pass's solo work but thought he needed a better tone and action ...

NY band featuring traditional piano trio and suona mix post-bop with oriental reverie and an abstract reharmonisation of ...

US flautist and Malian kora player find and extend the common ground between West African and North American vernacular music ...

Fifty years ago the US avant-gardist Milo Fine lamented the effect of partisan politics on jazz, hoping that music would ...

Barry McRae enjoyed what was essentially a jazz record, featuring Gato Barbieri, Julie Tippetts, Dave Holland and Paul Motian ...

Singer and bassist Farnon led Dave Newton (p) and Phil Johnson (d) in a set including GAS classics and Stevie Wonder’s For ...

British modern-era lynchpin Westbrook continues to perform into his late 80s and is heard here in 2023 with a band including ...

It’s difficult to understand why music as good as this has lain in the vaults for 20 years, for what we get is the Stanko ...

The trumpeter gave his opinion on Walter Pichon, Luis Russel, Jelly Roll Morton, Spike Hughes, King Oliver and more ...

German reedman lays aside his saxophone to pursue big-band writing reflecting his fascination with through-composition ...

While young delegates worried about climate change, concerts showed there is no boundary between European jazz and North ...

Michael Shera thought Hill's listenable avant-garde record probably one of the most important albums to appear in five years ...