Schubert Now! (BMC Records, BMC CD3298) Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain ...

Live At Slugs (Blue Note) On tour after his departure from John Coltrane’s classic quartet at the end of 1965, McCoy Tyner ...

Guitarist Lionel Loueke hails from Benin, West Africa and his roots are instantly evident here. His playing sounds ...

Suddenly, a resurgence of interest in big bands is in the air. Always been around, but locally, from the London Improvisers ...

This haunting album, reissued in ECM’s Luminescence vinyl series, features intense improvising and memorable compositions. As ...

The homage is a main ingredient in jazz. Not a week seems to go by without the release of a tribute album. Noteworthy ...

The relationship, partnership and friendship of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn has been well documented. Meeting in 1938 ...

Altoist and multi-instrumentalist Jimmie Lunceford drilled his band throughout the 30s in a gruelling nationwide schedule of touring shows and one-night stands, with a perfectionist’s zeal for the ...

Recorded three months before his mysterious death in 1988, this handsomely packaged double album finds Chet Baker creating ...

Jazz educator and bassist Gary Crosby is to lead a jazz jam at London’s Jazz Café 2 February to mark his 70th birthday (26).

This is the follow up to Latham’s 2016 collection of 11 rock pieces that were given the jazz-fusion treatment. This time ...

Bergen-based saxophonist and composer Inge Weatherhead Breistein first came to my attention through his collaborations with ...