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 ...
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 ...
Thirty years ago Michael Tucker hailed the classical-jazz fusion that Tony Coe went on to describe in a 2004 listening test ...
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 ...
Darius Brubeck has “played the changes” both as a musician, and politically, through deep involvement in the cultural ...
Mark Gilbert traced Miles Davis's journey from lumpen rock-jammer to sophisticated jazz-rocker through seven albums, ...
Barry McRae welcomed a free-jazz session that came complete with audience participation and any profits destined for CND ...