If there’s a common theme linking this month’s releases then it must surely be rhythm. The first two come from composers ...

The New Talent imprint of the Spanish Fresh Sound label puts relatively unknown artists in the spotlight and their releases ...

Performing on nearly 700 albums (150 as a leader) Phil Woods kept the bebop flame burning brightly throughout a long and ...

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

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

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

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

Many will know 50-year-old Victor Feldman from his stints with such artists as Cannonball Adderley and Peggy Lee. In recent ...

On the face of it, this is the kind of release I would normally pass by, dismissing it as just another set of standards with ...

Richard Palmer loved a duo between pianist Newton and the saxophonist who asked, in the first throes of the UK's endless jazz ...

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

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