Sixty years ago the famed cornet player struggled to appreciate Tony Williams and remembered when Bix Beiderbecke's pivot ...

Sixty years ago Michael Shera admired Under Milk Wood for its writing, for Bobby Wellins' tenor solos and for piano-playing which showed no American influence ...

Sixty years ago Graham Boatfield thought Ayler's 'harsh, feverish, tense and bitter' music might be the soundtrack to a ...

Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd’s move from ECM to Blue Note in 2013 – this is his 12th album for the label – has been ...

Off Stillness As you would expect from an ensemble led by a drummer, there is rhythm in the music of Thomas Strønen’s new ...

Making Music At the risk of being ostracised by the JJ community I confess that, when contemplating what to take to that ...

The Ellington Piano Project Duke Ellington had in a sense outlived himself when he made his final recording at the unlikely ...

The Unfortunate Collision Of Everything At Once This is a self-produced album from multi-instrumentalist Richard Davies, produced in his own home studio featuring his big-toned tenor, a smattering of ...

In October, Graham Colombé reviewed Rolande Hugard-Gourley’s book and referred to pianist Henri Renaud’s words about the significance of guitarist Jimmy Gourley’s influence on French jazz. This ...

It’s with great sadness that I learned of the recent death of my close friend and ex-colleague, Glyn Callingham. Glyn came to work at Ray’s Jazz Shop where I was manager and took over that role when I ...