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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

This record is like a layer cake, or is perhaps better likened to sweet and sour sauce. The sweet being the almost conventional treatment of the six ‘ordinary’ numbers; the sour – to most ears – being ...

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 ...