Sixty years ago, David Illingworth, keen to compare Blues Breakers to its inspirations, couldn't have known that it would ...

Organik Neither organist Pete Whittaker nor percussionist Gary Hammond, being custodians of the heavy armoury in guitarist Deirdre Cartwright’s trio, lifts the lid on what in the wrong hands can be ...

What Next?  Musicians grounded in jazz have often looked further afield to expand their repertoire, moving towards non-Western patterns, cyclical rather than linear progressions and embracing a common ...

Present This is the eminent Swedish vocalist Nyberg’s 25th release. It follows her excellent collaboration with the Bohuslän ...

Get Out And Get Under The Moon Widely acknowledged as the male vocalist of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra is still ...

Approximately one year ago – 28 September 2025 but who’s counting – I attended, and reported on in these very pages, an event ...

Pat Metheny and Side-Eye III+ at the Barbican, London Jazz Journal - 23 July 2026 ...

Four With more than 30 albums under his belt as leader and having established and directed the Scottish National Jazz ...

Here Is Donato! Master trombonist Ray Keberle has studied at both the Manhattan School of Music, where he was mentored by ...

Older readers will need no reminding of the legendary status enjoyed by the late Dave Brubeck, but given that it is now more than half a century since he was at his peak both as pianist and as leader ...

Tales From The Hudson is Brecker’s strongest album as leader so far, demonstrating as it does a focus and unity which was absent from his two overrated earlier outings for Impulse. Where the latter ...