All but two of the charts on Doo’s Blues, the Dusko Goykovich album I review below, are by the Serbian trumpeter himself, ...
Steve Gadd witnessed and sat in with legendary organist Jack McDuff at an early age, so it’s been satisfying in recent years to see the now 79-year-old drummer gravitating back towards his early love ...
The New Talent imprint of the Spanish Fresh Sound label puts relatively unknown artists in the spotlight and their releases ...
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 ...
Ostrów’s series of jazz concerts titled “Jazz at the Museum” celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The originator of the ...
Welsh born, New Orleans-based chanteuse Judith Owen has just released her 15th album. Backed by her 17-piece J.O. Big Band, ...
Many will know 50-year-old Victor Feldman from his stints with such artists as Cannonball Adderley and Peggy Lee. In recent ...
This previously unreleased live double album from Copenhagen’s Jazzhus Montmartre features the French master in a magnificent ...
This 11-CD set is a collection of 1943-1949 swing-era and early bop recordings originally made exclusively for the US armed ...
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 ...