British modern-era lynchpin Westbrook continues to perform into his late 80s and is heard here in 2023 with a band including ...

Singer and bassist Farnon led Dave Newton (p) and Phil Johnson (d) in a set including GAS classics and Stevie Wonder’s For ...

‘The next jazz innovator could easily have a white face, and speak with the accent of Paris or Hamburg or the English shires.

It’s difficult to understand why music as good as this has lain in the vaults for 20 years, for what we get is the Stanko ...

Michael Shera thought Hill's listenable avant-garde record probably one of the most important albums to appear in five years ...

This record is like a layer cake, or is perhaps better likened to sweet and sour sauce. The sweet being the almost conventional treatment of the six ‘ordinary’ numbers; the sour – to most ears – being ...

The trumpeter gave his opinion on Walter Pichon, Luis Russel, Jelly Roll Morton, Spike Hughes, King Oliver and more ...

German reedman lays aside his saxophone to pursue big-band writing reflecting his fascination with through-composition ...

Third recording from Dutch bassist plays at the crossroads of jazz, classical music, electronic music and free improvisation ...

It seems incredible that this should only be Murphy’s second British release, for his stature makes him easily the most ...

This is the eighth album as leader from Miami-based pianist and composer Berg, who’s famed for accompanying numerous leading ...

Swiss singer works out her states of mind and the states of America through a mixture of Latin waltz, pastoral ballad, rock, ...