This 11-CD set is a collection of 1943-1949 swing-era and early bop recordings originally made exclusively for the US armed ...
Three albums this month that show the sheer diversity of music that comes under the jazz umbrella. Seriously finds three ...
If there’s a common theme linking this month’s releases then it must surely be rhythm. The first two come from composers ...
Performing on nearly 700 albums (150 as a leader) Phil Woods kept the bebop flame burning brightly throughout a long and ...
The New Talent imprint of the Spanish Fresh Sound label puts relatively unknown artists in the spotlight and their releases ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thirty years ago Michael Tucker hailed the classical-jazz fusion that Tony Coe went on to describe in a 2004 listening test ...
Richard Palmer loved a duo between pianist Newton and the saxophonist who asked, in the first throes of the UK's endless jazz ...