 May 2013 - Sally Evans-Darby finds Tackley's study by no means a light read, but essential reading for the jazz scholar
 April 2013 - A new two-part series on BBC Radio 2 looks at jazz in the cinema, covering Bird, Mo' Better Blues, Breathless and more
 April 2013 - Fred Grand finds evidence of jazz's ’changing geographical centre of gravity’ at this year's northern-themed Gateshead International Jazz Festival
 April 2013 - The Dobell's exhibition opened in London yesterday, commencing a programme of events remembering the internationally renowned jazz shop
 April 2013 - Derek Ansell listens in on a furious fusion of hard bop and rap from Kinch and his trio at The Forge at The Anvil, Basingstoke
 April 2013 - The live music programme continues this month at Ray's Jazz Shop, now housed within Foyles' Charing Cross Road bookshop, and includes Chris Biscoe and Zhenya Strigalev
 March 2013 - Sally Evans-Darby finds that Marlene VerPlanck's sound is as fresh as ever at a packed afternoon performance
 March 2013 - A set of forgotten recordings by George Shearing with bassist Don Thompson will be released for the first time in April 2013
 March 2013 - The 32nd Jazz sous les pommiers festival takes place this May in Coutances, France with highlights including Ravi Coltrane, Madeleine Peyroux and Avishai Cohen
.jpg "The Bad Plus play UK in May") March 2013 - US piano trio The Bad Plus present their popular jazz-pop crossover in five UK dates in May
 February 2013 - Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith tours his critically acclaimed Karma this month, a band described in JJ as ’near revolutionary in a critical climate in thrall to free improv, neo-classicism and indie-rock paraphrase’
 March 2013 - Bob Weir sees Pee Wee Ellis, Arturo Sandoval, Andy Sheppard and Clare Teal at the impressively varied first Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival
 March 2013 - Bob Weir reports on a strong start for the first Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival, led by ’organisers who are obviously jazz enthusiasts’
 March 2013 - John Watson snaps Scofield and more on the second day of the 2013 Bristol jazz festival, reporting huge crowds and several SRO shows
 March 2013 - JJ photographer John Watson enjoys the opening night and ’marvellous atmosphere’ of the richly programmed 1st Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival
 March 2013 - Choice snips from Jazz Journal, March 2013: Wayne Shorter notes the absence of feminine moderation in the ’locker-room’ machine-gun fusion of the 70s, Big Jay McNeely recalls his part in the end of the Cold War, Shakatak is fêted, Kind Of Blue slated . . . and Bob Weir calls for information on hot geezers in Iceland
 February 2013 - Michael Tucker witnesses Keith Jarrett's first London show since 2008, extraordinarily the first time former Jarrett associate Jan Garbarek had seen Jarrett live since 1979
 February 2013 - Anthony Troon enjoys the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with guest Paolo Fresu playing music from the Miles Davis albums Birth Of The Cool and Miles Ahead
 February 2013 - Bryan Ferry's 1920s-style revisioning of his 1970s hits has been added to the Love Supreme festival, along Courtney Pine, Gregory Porter and Chic featuring Nile Rodgers
.jpg "Review: Jakob Bro Trio at the Vortex") February 2013 - Michael Tucker finds drummer Jon Christensen of the Jakob Bro Trio to be 'a poet of tone and texture' at the Vortex, London
 February 2013 - The second International Jazz Day is hosted by Istanbul on 30 April with contributions from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Al Jarreau
 March 2013 - Ronnie Scott's spring 2013 roster, including Kurt Elling, John Scofield, Chick Corea and Mark Murphy, shows that seven years into the new regime the Soho club is still at the forefront of modern mainstream jazz programming
.jpg "From the archive: Black British Swing") February 2013 - BBC2's 'Swinging Into The Blitz' - 'the untold story of the black British swing musicians of the 1930s' - follows a comprehensively annotated CD issued a decade ago
 March 2013 - Scots saxophonist Tommy Smith has been awarded an honorary degree at a Celebration of Achievement ceremony at the University of Edinburgh
 February 2013 - Saxophonist Tony Woods, whom JJ noted for the 'elegant saxophone colour' he brought to the late Michael Garrick's Lyric Ensemble, tours the band in March with Nikki Iles
 February 2013 - As the JJ debate on jazz identity rumbles on, Richard Palmer enjoys the instinctive swinging power of Shakatak and reminds us that in the face of musical quality “formulaic” is an inconsequential charge
 February 2013 - Bruce Lindsay finds there's plenty to celebrate on the UK and international jazz scene at the first ever Jazz FM Awards in London
 February 2013 - Georgia Mancio, tipped by JJ's Derek Ansell for her ’fresh and invigorating’ treatments of new and standard material, embarks on a 20-date UK tour this spring/summer
 February 2013 - Derek Ansell checks out a singer billed as ’the UK's answer to Diana Krall and Norah Jones’ with Jazz At The Movies at Cleo Laine's Stables Theatre, Wavendon in early February
.jpg "The Jazz Digest, February 2013") February 2013 - Choice snips from Jazz Journal, February 2013: Bob Belden berates the pretenders who would 'curate' jazz, Gilad Atzmon attacks the politically directed subsidy that kills the 'libidinal spontaneity' of the music . . . and Brian Morton recalls Pete La Roca's sage response to the invitation to play free: 'You know the truth is, guys, I'm free in 4/4'
 27 cc image(1).jpg "SNJO plays Birth of the Cool") January 2013 - The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Paolo Fresu is to play a series of concerts celebrating two seminal works by Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead
 February 2013 - Drummer Mark Fletcher and his band Fletch's Brew signal a departure on the London club scene by focusing on high quality jazz fusion from the pads of Mike Brecker, Pat Metheny and Weather Report
 January 2013 - Choice snips from JJ January 2013: Heather Cairncross rates elderly gent Jamie Cullum, Julian Joseph champions swing, groove and blues and TCB's Peter Schmidlin says ’They call just about anything jazz now’. JJ critics call the top records of 2012 stuff from Armstrong to Surman
 January 2013 - The 40th anniversary of the last of Ellington's Sacred Concerts is to be marked by a performance featuring 180 singers at the inaugural Bristol jazz festival in March
 January 2013 - Pure analogue jazz from vinyl-only label Gearbox is bucking the digital trend by putting sound quality and sheer enjoyment of the physical article above all else
 January 2013 - ’Stunningly original’ singer-songwriter Tessa Souter releases her new album in February, followed up by a two-night gig at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London
 January 2013 - Jools Holland throws down the boogie-woogie gauntlet at the Boisdale, Canary Wharf next month for his Festival of Boogie Woogie and the Blues
January 2013 - Pianist Keith Jarrett follows the issue in 2011 of his solo album Rio with his first London solo performance since 2008 and his first appearance in Ireland in over 30 years
 January 2013 - A feast of jazz, world and folk music is planned for Birmingham's Town and Symphony Halls this spring, including the pairing of Chris Barber and Acker Bilk
January 2013 - Dobell's record shop, stopping point for Muddy Waters, BB King, Roy Eldridge and Ben Webster, is to be recreated in an exhibition at Chelsea College of Art & Design
 December 2012 - Choice snips from JJ December: Warren Vaché escapes pigeonhole and digs Don Cherry, Simon Spillett reckons early closing and Watford Gap services inspired 1960s UK jazz . . . and Ted Curson recommends moustache growing over trumpet playing
 December 2012 - The first names for the 2013 Norwich Jazz Party have been announced and include Harry Allen, Scott Hamilton, Jim Galloway and Ken Peplowski
 December 2012 - Pianist and composer Brad Mehldau will tour the UK with fellow pianist Kevin Hays and separately as part of new project Mehliana in 2013
 December 2012 - Liverpool's Capstone Theatre will play host to a new international jazz festival in the spring, featuring Courtney Pine among others
December 2012 - New York based singer, scatter and storyteller Marlene VerPlanck returns to the UK in the spring for a typically extensive tour
.jpg "Miles in 1969 for Sony's latest 'bootleg' set") December 2012 - Volume II of the acclaimed Miles Davis Live In Europe bootleg series, out in February 2013, features rare live audio and video footage of Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette in 1969
 December 2012 - New year highlights at Ronnie Scott's include Larry Goldings, Harold Mabern, Manu Katché, Cedar Walton, Marc Johnson, Eliane Elias, Billy Cobham, Kurt Elling
.jpg "Reuben Fowler wins jazz award") December 2012 - Young trumpeter and composer Reuben Fowler has won this year's Peter Whittingham Jazz Award for promising jazz musicians
 January 2013 - Pianist Vijay Iyer and his trio bring their arithmetically complex vision of jazz rhythm to the London Southbank Centre next February
 December 2012 - Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble, cover feature in February's JJ, tour widely this spring to coincide with new CD Songs Of The Metropolis
 December 2012 - Alan Barnes and Dave Newton are among the highlights of the new jazz programme at the Playhouse Theatre in Cheltenham next year
.jpg "A jazz spring at the Barbican") December 2012 - Ahmad Jamal, Bobby McFerrin and Avishai Cohen are to play at the London Barbican next spring, as part of the venue's Spring 2013 Contemporary Events season
 December 2012 - A talk in London tomorrow evening suggests that Odin was actually a tribal shaman, leading his people through Azerbaijan into Sweden
 December 2012 - Pianist, composer and proponent of progressive jazz Dave Brubeck, ’an artist, a pioneer’, has died at the age of 91 in Connecticut
 December 2012 - Irish singer Christine Tobin wins award for Sailing To Byzantium, combining jazz with the poetry of W.B. Yeats
 December 2012 - Pianist and composer Julian Joseph is to run an academy for young jazz players next year, giving aspiring musicians the chance to ’get to the heart and power of jazz’
.jpg "Jazz 'redefiner' Walter Smith to tour UK") December 2012 - Early in the new year, US tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III will be playing across the UK in a special tour that mixes live performance with jazz master classes
 November 2012 - Bob Weir reports on two events that perhaps uniquely among jazz festivals bring together every stratum of society from ambassadors to gypsies, Christians to Moslems
 December 2012 - Next year's Gateshead jazz festival focuses on the North with an appearance by Finnish trumpeter Verneri Pohjola and a performance of Ian Carr's Northumbrian Sketches
.jpg "Review: Phelps/Murray/Grey at LJF") November 2012 - Bob Weir heard David Murray at his most Websterish, confirming his position as one of the tenor sax greats
 November 2012 - The 2013 Love Supreme jazz festival with Marcus Miller, Branford Marsalis et al looks set to bring back outdoor summer jazz at its best
.jpg "Review: Michael Garrick Tribute at LJF 2012") November 2012 - Bob Weir listens in on a moving musical tribute to the late British pianist and composer that celebrated his five decades of music-making
.jpg "Review: Sonny Rollins at LJF 2012") November 2012 - Bob Weir sees one of the great jazz survivors at the Barbican and finds that despite his 82 years Rollins remains a model of creativity, concentration and commitment
 November 2012 - Simon Adams says that if John Surman's choral writing in Lifelines was effective rather than adventurous, the singing by the Bolsterstone Male Voice Choir swept doubts aside
 November 2012 - Derek Ansell hears two old masters of modern jazz, Jim Hall adding levity to the proceedings with the comment that it was good to be there . . . ’it's good to be anywhere’
 November 2012 - Sally Evans-Darby discovers an artist who has been in and out of obscurity since the 1960s but is now firmly in the limelight
 November 2012 - Sally Evans-Darby drops into Ronnie's for a late-night serving of explosive vocal jazz
 November 2012 - Fred Grand checks out Chick Corea with Christian McBride and Brian Blade at the London Barbican Centre
 November 2012 - Andy Hamilton covers a midweek trio of singers - Sheila Jordan, Kurt Elling and Karin Krog. Has anyone else noted shades of Jack Nicholson's Joker in the extraordinary Elling?
 November 2012 - Mark Gilbert finds the best of jazz at what is nominally the least jazz-related of the headline concerts at the London Jazz Festival
 November 2012 - Simon Adams sees the Marcus Roberts trio in tributes to Monk and Coltrane that while immaculately delivered and well received sometimes wanted grit and momentum
 November 2012 - Sam Braysher witnesses an ’utter virtuoso’, back with a trio and producing a rush of improvised counterpoint during one solo cadenza that was ’truly remarkable’
 November 2012 - Michael Tucker says that Jan Garbarek can get deep down and bluesy but he finds Trilok Gurtu's low-down too loud for comfort and misses the magic of Eberhard Weber
 November 2012 - Ronald Atkins is engrossed by Bill Morrison's film of the 1927 Mississippi flood and happily absorbs the soundtrack by Bill Frisell, Ron Miles, Tony Scherr and Kenny Wolleson
 January 2013 - Bristol is to host to a refreshingly eclectic new festival featuring local and international artists including Arturo Sandoval, John Scofield, Ginger Baker and Chris Barber
 October 2012 - The Jazz Cruise and the Smooth Jazz Cruise, Caribbean jazz trips with top-drawer names such as Randy Brecker, Kurt Elling and Gary Burton, are almost sold out
 November 2012 - Fred Grand reviews Ayanna & the Kairos 4tet, two acts with differing approaches to the idea of crossing over, under, in and out of jazz
 December 2012 - Pete Long and his Goodmen take on the role of Benny Goodman and his orchestra at Cadogan Hall next January for the famous Carnegie Hall concert's 75th anniversary
 November 2012 - Francis Graham-Dixon sees Herbie Hancock and digital friends at the London Jazz Festival, supplying edge and impeccable taste in equal measure
 December 2012 - Puzzling over the best gifts for Christmas? Jazz Journal offers the perfect solution for the jazz fan in your life with a range of stylish jazz accessories including baseball cap, mug, T-shirt, the 2013 JJ calendar and gift subscriptions
 November 2012 - On the first night of the London Jazz Festival Francis Graham-Dixon concludes that Robert Glasper has yet to find the best musical context for his stage work
.jpg "Cleo Laine postage stamps issued") November 2012 - Cleo Laine is the latest jazz musician to be honoured with a stamp, following Miles Davis earlier this year. The limited edition stamps mark the British jazz singer's 85th birthday in October and are available only at the wartime post office in Milton Keynes
 October 2012 - This year's annual Jazz and Blues Festival in Teignmouth, Devon kicks off on 16 November with some new and returning faces, including Zoe Schwarz and Rob Koral
 November 2012 - Jerry Brown reports on a packed north of England gathering that included appearances by Tom ’Spats’ Langham, Martin Litton, Bent Persson and Keith Nichols and an outstanding rendition of the music of Graeme Bell and Humphrey Lyttelton as recorded by the combined bands in 1951
 November 2012 - Choice snips from JJ November: Jazz Services sees jazz, long bedecked with political significance, as a 'constituency’; Jim Mullen would rather critics didn't listen with their eyes; Simon Spillett likes Jan Garbarek and jazz . . . and Bob Weir opens the bidding for greatest jazz concert ever
 October 2012 - Jack DeJohnette, noted for his drum roles in the Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett groups, makes a 70th birthday tour of the UK with a quintet featuring Don Byron (reeds), Marvin Sewell (g), George Colligan (kyb) and Jerome Harris (b)
 October 2012 - Tony Troon admires the versatility of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra under Tommy Smith. They've done Weather Report and will soon do Miles Davis. On this occasion they brought out the timeless appeal of Duke Ellington, with Smith even showing Paul Gonsalves ’where to get off’
.jpg "The Jazz Digest, October 2012") October 2012 - Choice snips from JJ October: The UK's so-called alternative music prize once again proves unable to escape radical stereotypes; the Shads musicianship is preferred over that of jazz players then and since . . . and a new Hep issue reminds us that Spike Robinson was the real deal
 September 2012 - Bob Weir sees how new boys Orchard Entertainment are getting on in their first year organising Brecon jazz festival against a background of international historical triumph and recent difficulties
 September 2012 - Bob Weir reports on two of Europe's finest and most enduring jazz festivals - Vienne in the south of France and San Sebastian in northern Spain, the former over three decades old, the latter 47 years and together reflecting a wealth of jazz style old and new
 September 2012 - Simon Adams at Holland's festival in a sardine tin says ’The headline jazz act this year – I’m ignoring Hugh Laurie – was Pat Metheny’s Unity Band.' He also says he never thought would ever say anything negative about Wayne Shorter. A dream fulfilled, he found Ahmad Jamal, 82, outstanding
 August 2012 - Michael Tucker reviews the 2012 Ystad jazz festival, featuring special guest Quincy Jones fearing for young people's attention spans and lamenting America's failure to appoint a minister of culture to promote jazz
 September 2012 - Choice snips from JJ September: Tim Motion remembers the heady days and nights of 1980s Nice, Quincy Jones fears for the new generation's attention span . . . and the advent of Marius Neset reignites the old war between technique and art
 August 2012 - In two nights at Café Oto in north London the American trumpeter stretched out in the company of four varied local ensembles featuring players such as John Russell, Steve Noble, Mark Sanders and Orphy Robinson. Report by Simon Adams
 August 2012 - Choice snips from JJ August: Bob Mintzer relishes the early tutelage of Jackie McLean, Mark Turner marvels at sessions with Billy Hart . . . and Frank Dixon, boss of Decibel Records, recalls how the label's Leak amplifier ended up scaring birds at Manchester airport
 July 2012 - John Adcock reports on a show from Wynton Marsalis and Yacub Addy that highlights the African component in 19th century New Orleans music, juxtaposing it with American jazz and big band music
 July 2012 - Francis Graham-Dixon was lucky enough to see two of the most innovative and influential of modern jazz guitarists in London this summer
 June 2012 - The lineup at this year's Marciac festival (27 July to 14 August) represents a compendium of the best of international jazz, all in a charming French village setting
 May 2012 - Europe's oldest jazz festival (founded 1948, same year as Jazz Journal) this year includes Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ahmad Jamal, Gregory Porter, Herbie Hancock, The Bad Plus, Joshua Redman, Eddy Louiss and Richard Galliano
 July 2012 - Spectacular al fresco sculpture and jazz come together in Dorset this weekend when Sculpture By The Lakes at Pallington hosts a jazz festival over three days, 6-8 July
 July 2012 - Fred Grand reports that the former Cream drummer has found in his new group a balance that plays to his strengths, cracking that elusive jazz nut once and for all
 July 2012 - Fred Grand cites Svara-Kanti's cross-cultural fusions and the sterling work of Tommy Smith's big bands as strong evidence that jazz subsidy can be money very well spent. Neil Cowley did the corporate bit at the Apple Store
 July 2012 - Choice snips from JJ July: Joe Temperley defends his boss against charges of conservatism, Vijay Iyer finds jazz in far-off places, Steve Voce recalls how The Lip stomped all over late 60s Manchester . . . and turns out John Lewis (not that one) jammed in Ulster before his New York big time
 July 2012 - Fred Grand finds that the Neil Cowley Trio's readiness to adopt the stagecraft and energy of rock music helps them reach the parts that most jazz piano trios fail to reach
 July 2012 - Fred Grand hears music rooted in Mwandishi-era Hancock but refreshing the tradition by adopting today's urban language and modern production techniques
 July 2012 - To cap a magical night the multi-instrumentalist improvised a tribute to British folk music over a drone supplied by the audience, writes Michael Tucker
 July 2012 - Despite a 25-minute solo, throaty multiphonics and shrieking falsettos, Fred Grand senses a whiff of classicism from the one-time enfant terrible of ’New Thing’
 July 2012 - 'This was not the place for a world première of a new and challenging free jazz composition, but one of the joys of the weekend was in hearing how these players brought fresh approaches to familiar (and not so familiar) tunes,’ writes Bruce Lindsay
 June 2012 - ’When Glasper did play a piano solo, over an hour into the set, it was beautifully crafted and delicately performed: more of the same would have been very welcome. Still, Experiment is a band, not one man and some backing musicians,’ writes Bruce Lindsay
 June 2012 - Choice snips from JJ June: Bucky Pizzarelli sees rock grow from three chords into one note, Robert Glasper breaks into the mainstream (not that one), Michael Garrick champions local produce, good or bad . . . and John Altman blows the jazz wind out of the adman's sales
 May 2012 - Choice snips from JJ May: Kenny Garrett smelling his way into jazz, Joel Forrester playing therapist to Monk, Alan Luff digging proto-jazzman Franz Schubert, Geoffrey Smith on how JRR became GS's Jazz . . . and Jasper Høiby, seeing the light in the dark
 April 2012 - Mark Gilbert previews the 2012 Ystad jazz festival, another good reason - after Wallander - for southern Sweden to be on the UK's cultural radar
 May 2012 - Mark Gilbert previews the Swiss festival that brings the flavour of New Orleans and points beyond to Lake Maggiore
 April 2012 - Bob Weir reports from the revived Jersey Jazz Festival, scene of many a mainstream triumph in past decades. This year's mix ranged from Dennis Rollins's high-energy jazz and funk to Simon Spillett's urbane bop and standards
 April 2012 - Choice snips from JJ April: Art Themen on the efficacy of Skid's 38d saxophone harness, Anthony Strong loving Michael Bublé, Enrico Pieranunzi treading carefully on Scarlatti and ACT's Siggi Loch reminding us that ’jazz fans still like the physical object, something they can take home and make part of their lives’
 March 2012 - Geoffrey Smith, presenter of BBC Radio 3's Jazz Record Requests, is to leave the programme following a decision to refresh one of the BBC's oldest jazz features
 April 2012 - ’The first major UK festival in the calendar, the Gateshead International Jazz Festival becomes more of a bonsai London International Jazz Festival with each passing year,’ writes Fred Grand
 March 2012 - The Russian bassist offers ’a refreshing antidote to the harmonically bereft punk-prog-indie inspired fare that unreasonably excites so many in the jazz (and, unsurprisingly, non-jazz) media’ writes Mark Gilbert
 April 2012 - “Roberts is too elegant and maybe too classically-trained to go for filth, but a majestic bluesiness, with physicality and movement in the attack, permeated his Coltrane playing,” says Andy Hamilton
 March 2012 - The 18-strong Stan Tracey Orchestra including Alan Barnes, Guy Barker and Mark Nightingale appears with the choir of St Peter's school in York tonight to perform Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts
 April 2012 - John Adcock finds the Norwegian pianist bringing new meaning to the idea of jazz trading on a Sunday: no JATP-style sparring contests here but reverential silence between occasional solos in an evening of hushed spirituality
 March 2012 - Garry Booth salutes the bruised but unbowed sound of no-nonsense tenor saxophone campaigner Don Weller on a rainswept night in Lowestoft
 April 2012 - Garry Booth finds that the wayward, groove-based improvisers of the first two albums have retreated into monophonic anaesthesia
 March 2012 - Michael Tucker reports on the opening of a well-appointed new jazz club in central Brighton, with Bobby Wellins, Jim Mullen, Alan Barnes, Scott Hamilton and Don Weller coming up
 March 2012 - Renowned bebop and Charlie Parker disciple Richie Cole was one notable leap year jazz birthday boy in California last month
 March 2012 - To mark the 64th anniversary of the launch of Jazz Journal in May 1948 we republish articles demonstrating the wealth of jazz perspective garnered in JJ's columns over six decades. PoP#1: Randy Brecker in 1969
 March 2012 - Sally Evans-Darby looks forward to songbook classics performed with polish and verve during Marlene VerPlanck’s 16-date spring tour of the UK
 March 2012 - Choice snips from JJ March: The Art of Randy Brecker, JJ Crossword No.1, Cattin' On The Keys, Gunther Schuller, Phil Robson, Tom Arthurs, James Evans, Jazz Icons 5 DVDs, jazz grass roots in crisis . . . and Oscar Peterson's disastrous hand position
.jpg "Hard bop for a new age at Ronnie's") February 2012 - Francis Graham-Dixon revels in an evening of high-octane hard bop from The Cookers - music that stirred one punter to venture: ’It’s great to have the old Ronnie’s back!’
 March 2012 - Dave Weckl and Ginger Baker are among the drum giants who will appear in April at the 25th Buddy Rich memorial concert - the first to take place in London
.jpg "Rahman ranges east and west") February 2012 - Berklee graduate and former Joanne Brackeen protégée Zoe Rahman brings her tincture of Tyner-style jazz piano, Indian raga and Irish folk to British audiences through March
February 2011 - Five elder statesmen and two younger keepers of the flame line up at Ronnie Scott's next week for what promises to be two nights of burning hard bop in the Blue Note mould
 March 2012 - The spring 2012 edition of the Croydon Record Fair, Sunday 29 April, features jazz on 78, LP, CD (maybe, even, on wax cylinder) and live from the Dave Green trio with Jim Mullen
 March 2012 - As the days lengthen we preview some of the leading jazz festivals in the 2012 spring season - in the UK, France and a point in between
 March 2012 - The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra led by Tommy Smith teams up with Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine and Randy Brecker in dates saluting Weather Report and Michael Brecker
 February 2012 - Veteran Scots saxophonist Bobby Wellins helped put an unsung Eastbourne venue on the British jazz map last month, bringing the Underground club overground
 February 2012 - What happened in jazz in 2011? Find that review or article as published in Jazz Journal 2011 via the handsomely appointed Jazz Journal Index 2011: details of 798 CD reviews, 27 DVD reviews and 39 book reviews
 February 2012 - The 2011 Grammy jazz nominations featured proven jazz talent, in contrast to the often arcane jazz awards seen lately on this side of the Atlantic
.jpg "The Jazz Digest, February 2012") February 2012 - Choice snips from JJ February: Tord Gustavsen, Jeff Hooper, McCormack/Yarde, New York on test, Critics' Poll, André Hodeir, Butch Ballard, Walter Norris . . . and how jazzers broke Olympic records running from bebop in 1948
 January 2012 - As the BBC's Desert Island Discs marks its 70th anniversary by publishing playlists since 1942 and putting some 1000 episodes online, Gordon Sapsed checks how much jazz has washed up
 with Wallander star Krister Henriksson.jpg "Jazz Journal Critics' Poll 2011") January 2012 - Thirty leading critics choose 20 favourites from the 798 records reviewed in Jazz Journal in 2011. Among the top 10, Jan Lundgren, Bobby Wellins, Tommy Smith, Kurt Elling
 crop.jpg "Win an Olympus LS-3 recorder") January 2011 - Ensure your UK subscription to Jazz Journal is current at 10 February 2012 and be eligible to enter our competition for an Olympus LS-3 recorder
 January 2012 - American jazz players once again headline in Denmark for Vinterjazz 2012, 3-19 February, a nationwide jazz festival spread across more than 60 venues
 January 2011 - Ahead of Mark Murphy's celebration of his 80th birthday at Ronnie Scott's in London, we publish a scene-setting review of his gig at UCS Hampstead 30 years ago
 January 2012 - Francis Graham-Dixon senses a missed opportunity for trombonist Wayne Henderson and the Jazz Crusaders on a Friday 13th at Ronnie Scott's that never really took off
 January 2012 - Greater freedom for small venues moved a step nearer yesterday with the third reading of the Live Music Bill, designed to remove the restrictions on live music imposed by Labour's 2003 Licensing Act
 December 2011 - Bill Frisell, ’most innovative and influential jazz guitarist of the past 25 years’, swings less than the Beatles on his new album of John Lennon covers
 December 2011 - Elvis Costello recommends prospective buyers of his new box set get Universal's Louis Armstrong collection instead
 January 2012 - Tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton is back in England again for New Year dates stretching from London to Leeds
 December 2011 - New EP from the Leeds trio offers sonic responses to the X Factor judges but does it make any more musical progress than the show's contestants?
 November 2011 - The latest Proper podcast features key 1950s-60s British jazz and rock entrepreneur Chris Barber in conversation with Trevor Dann
 December 2011 - John Coltrane's music is often seen as an expression of spirituality. Andy Hamilton went to see the late saxophonist's work put to literal religious use in a San Francisco church
 December 2011 - Derek Ansell reviews NYJO's Christmas Carol In Six Movements CD - one of 'the band's best live performances for some time'. Plus news of NYJO at the Hideaway and on BBC R4's Today programme
 December 2011 - Former John Stevens sideman Francis Graham-Dixon reviews a spellbinding gig that fell a little too early for the London Jazz Festival
 December 2011 - First there was the Whitley Bay Jazz Festival. Now trumpeter Mike Durham has launched the Classic Jazz Party. Michael Steinman reviews the 'brilliant' inaugural weekend
 November 2011 - Fred Grand watches the American guitarist and his string trio extend a tradition stretching back to Jimmy Giuffre and The Train And River
.jpg "London Jazz Festival: Hermeto Pascoal") November 2011 - Garry Booth watches a three-hour epic from the Brazilian eccentric whom age has not withered, either in writing or performance
 November 2011 - Simon Adams sees the 81-year-old altoist at the RFH, finding himself surprised yet again with the vigour and originality of Coleman's performance
 December 2011 - A personal tribute from producer and Mainstem label boss David Hays recalling Mike's last gig, in Amersham
 November 2011 - Fred Grand senses polyphonic meltdown, were it not for the funky back beats and mutant marching-band cadences
 November 2011 - Simon Adams finds the warm acoustic and elegant style of the Wigmore Hall the ideal setting for a masterclass in continuous solo piano improvisation from the South African pianist
 November 2011 - Sam Braysher reviews Gretchen Parlato at Kings Place and admires an integrated band that keeps on finding fresh perspectives on roadworn songs
 November 2011 - Fred Grand reviews Roy Haynes's Fountain Of Youth Band at QEH and finds the veteran drummer 'embellishing every accent without ever sounding over-embellished.' Peter King, the UK's own post-bop veteran, played opposite
 November 2011 - Richard Galliano: A Tribute To Nino Rota, RFH, 17 November 2011. Simon Adams finds Rota's music well served by a fine group fronted by the ’vaguely asthmatic but consistently impressive’ accordion
 November 2011 - Fred Grand reviews London band Empirical and the Archie Shepp/Joachim Kühn duo and hopes it's not too long before Kühn is back playing his scintillating music on his own terms
 November 2011 - Simon Adams reviews Nik Bärtsch's Ronin at King's Place, London, 16 November 2011 and comes away dazzled rather than entertained
 November 2011 - John Adcock reviews the Marcin Wasilewski trio and the Stefano Bollani and Martial Solal duo at the Barbican, 16 November 2011
 November 2011 - Sam Braysher reviews the Christine Tobin band plus Phil Robson’s IMS Quintet featuring NYC Warne Marsh disciple Mark Turner and London-based US bassist Mike Janisch
 November 2012 - The JJ Calendar 2012 is the perfect jazz gift, featuring such top names as Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Chris Potter, Tommy Smith and John Scofield
November 2011 - Mark Gilbert reviews the Soweto Kinch trio at The Albany, Deptford on 12 November, second night of the London Jazz Festival
 November 2011 - Sam Braysher reviews Steve Coleman and Steve Williamson at Queen Elizabeth Hall. John Watson snaps Coleman and Gregory Porter at the Ronnie Scott's/Radio 3 launch show
 November 2011 - Choice snips from JJ November: Barbara Thompson, Buddy Greco, Alex Garnett, Randy Sandke, Serge Chaloff, Graham Collier, Frank Driggs, Felsted reissues, Django Reinhardt, Phil Woods, BBC Big Band . . . and the magnificent JJ calendar 2012
 September 2011 - One to brighten the dull days: back home with 60 gigs to file, Tim Motion presents an evocative 2011 summer jazz diary centred around the compendious Marciac festival
 October 2011 - Derek Ansell reviews the London début of Dena DeRose, tipped as most compelling singer/pianist since Shirley Horn
 October 2011 - Hugh Rainey watches Louis, the silent film feature by Dan Pritzer that gets its European première at the Barbican as part of the London Jazz Festival on 13 November
.jpg "Jazz, by the Booker") October 2011 - Dave Foxall reviews Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues, the jazz interest in this year's Man Booker Prize, and inspects its jazz credentials
 August 2011 - A new silent film on the life of the young Louis Armstrong receives its UK première at the London Jazz Festival in November with a Wynton Marsalis score performed live by Wycliffe Gordon and others
 September 2011 - The annual London Jazz Festival has leading jazz names, the eclecticism which has long typified the event and a perhaps stronger than hitherto mainstream element
 September 2011 - The annual Guinness Cork Jazz Festival always seems to present a contrasting and near-unique programme that avoids largely duplicating concurrent events elsewhere, and this year's festival, 28-31 October, is no exception
 October 2011 - Latest JJ online reviews include a 10-CD Louis Armstrong collection with unrivalled sound, a 4-CD set of bebop master Sonny Clark from the revived Properbox, plus new Charles Lloyd, Brad Mehldau, Alex Garnett and Empirical
 October 2011 - Choice snips from JJ October: new Louis Armstrong in audio and print, Dena DeRose, Iain Ballamy, Wynton Marsalis, Baroness Nica . . . and the shorts bursts of inspiration that encapsulate what jazz is all about
 September 2011 - Record collection to sell or looking for that elusive rarity? The autumn meeting of the renowned Croydon Record Collectors' Fair at Fairfield Halls, Croydon this Sunday promises a vast selection of jazz and blues 78s, LPs and CDs
 September 2011 - Tommy Smith's new album, Metallica's Lars Ulrich on Jamie Cullum's show and a recent Jazz Times piece highlight the often overlooked kinship between jazz and heavy metal
.jpg "Jazz Journal latest online reviews") September 2011 - Jazz Journal's latest online reviews include celebrated new singer Gregory Porter, once-again renewed vibist Gary Burton, singing scion of a jazz dynasty Jacqui Dankworth and nonagenarian orchestrator Gerard Wilson, plus Frank Griffith, Leon Greening and Billy Jenkins
 September 2011 - Choice snips from JJ September: Alan Skidmore, Guy Barker, Sonny Rollins, Jan Lundgren & LaGaylia Frazier, Dave Douglas, Joe Mudele, Eric Delaney . . . and how Sweden prevailed this summer in more than just jazz
 September 2011 - Fusion, smooth jazz, jazz-lite - call it what you will - might be derided in the higher and drier echelons of the critical establishment but it's booming at sea
 August 2011 - John Etheridge, Bobby Wellins, Michael Garrick and Jim Hart are among the big names booked for the second annual jazz festival at All Saints, Hove in September
 September 2011 - Plans have been announced to create an international jazz venue on the site of the former Pizza On The Park in London
 August 2011 - Jazz Journal publishes selected reviews online starting with Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, Impossible Gents, David Binney and Bob ’it doesn't get any hipper’ Mintzer
 August 2011 - Bob Weir reports that the Brecon Jazz Festival - this year's the third under the auspices of the Hay Festival - is back on track with strong programming, efficient organisation and impressive audience numbers
.jpg "After Wallander, a jazz triumph for Ystad") August 2011 - The second Ystad jazz festival drew to a close this weekend, doubling sales but holding firm to its director's vision of a festival where jazz doesn't “fall to the background”
 August 2011 - Choice snips from JJ August: Dan Block, Courtney Pine, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Chico & Rita, John Scofield, Humphrey Lyttelton and a glimpse of our Lockerbie festival competition
 July 2011 - Riverdance, Glenn Miller, Stevie Winwood and Matt Bianco sideman puts various voices of the saxophone centre stage in his new album Trilateral, launched at the 606 Club, London on 27 July
 July 2011 - Gwilym Simcock's album Good Days At Schloss Elmau is the jazz nomination for the 2011 Mercury prize, to be awarded 6 September. JJ reviewer Simon Adams found that Simcock made his piano 'sing with confidence and joy’
 July 2011 - The International Association of Jazz Record Collectors convention makes a rare visit to the UK in September 2011 with themes including Modern Jazz in Manchester, 1946-72 and Black Europe - Early Acoustic Recordings
 July 2011 - The launch of Jacqui Dankworth's new album It Happens Quietly has been rescheduled to 24 July. Enter our simple competition for a chance to win two free tickets and a signed copy of the CD she co-wrote with her late father Sir John, but hurry - closes 22 July
 July 2011 - Blaze, the summer music festival in East London, features a strong jazz contingent including Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Terence Blanchard, Hugh Masakela and Esperanza Spalding
 July 2011 - Demonstrating a partiality for guitarists that stretches back to his work with Hank Garland in the 1960s, vibist Gary Burton brings a quartet with Julian Lage to London in July
 July 2011 - Choice snips from JJ July: Mike Stern, Kyle Eastwood, Monty Alexander, Lu Watters, Graham Bond . . . and the root of the vamp
 August 2011 - BBC Two is to start filming a new drama series by Stephen Poliakoff centred on a black jazz band in London in the 1930s and distantly echoing the lives of Snakehips Johnson and Jiver Hutchinson
July 2011 - Mark Gilbert finds in the Scots saxophonist's new album vindication for the idea that heavy metal has taken on the mantle of virtuosity divested some years ago in the sniffier quarters of the jazz world
 June 2011 - The 2011 Brecon jazz festival in picturesque Mid Wales features John Surman, Courtney Pine, Monty Alexander, Gilad Atzmon, Robert Glasper, Maceo Parker and more
 April 2011 - The acclaimed Herts Jazz Club is to present a festival featuring top British modern and mainstream talent such as Martin Taylor and Peter King to its list of achievements
 June 2011 - Pianist Monty Alexander talks to Jazz Journal ahead of his 27 June concert at the first London BluesFest
 June 2011 - Choice snips from JJ June: Charlap, Led Bib, Sulzmann, Stern, Dylan, Kenton, Surman . . . and the Radio 2 typist
.jpg "Wynton Marsalis for Ronnie's in August") June 2011 - Ronnie Scott's has announced that the Wynton Marsalis septet will play five nights at the club this summer.
 June 2011 - The Music In The Garden summer concert series in the Old Rectory gardens in Wavendon is back again with as strong a lineup as ever, running from 18 June to 17 July.
 May 2011 - Brittany Ferries are offering a discounted ticket and ferry package to a jazz weekend on the banks of the River Aulne in Brittany in July.
 May 2011 - Acclaimed US clarinettist plays several UK dates with Django à la Créole, the band that blends Hot Club de France style with New Orleans jazz.
 May 2011 - It's a general arts event, but the Norfolk & Norwich Festival has a strong jazz programme including high profile names and some players rarely seen in the UK.
 May 2011 - One-time Ornette Coleman, Pat Metheny and Keith Jarrett sideman Charlie Haden is at the Barbican in London for a special weekend residency, 21-22 May.
 April 2011 - US bassist Michael Janisch records his new album at the Pizza Express over two nights with free CD on admission.
 May 2011 - Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, renowned for his work on ECM and with George Russell and Keith Jarrett, plays 11 British dates this year with the Hilliard Ensemble.
 April 2011 - Legendary drummer with Marcus Miller, John Scofield, David Sanborn, Stanley Turrentine and others appears in intimate London club setting this spring bank holiday weekend.
 April 2011 - Trumpeter Martin Shaw and Brazilian singer Jandira Silva perform celebrated jazz scores by Miles Davis, Luiz Bonfá and others at London's 606 Club on 4 May.
 April 2011 - The PHJB, now titled the Great Preservation Hall Jazz Band, plays a rare UK date at London's South Bank in June via former Kinks leader Ray Davies's Meltdown series.
 April 2011 - Laurie Holloway and his trio play a charity fundraiser gig with special guest Kenny Lynch at Taplow Court, Berkshire, on Friday 27 May and we have two VIP tickets to be won.
 April 2011 - We're sorry to report the death of Ray Smith, founder of Ray's Jazz Shop, a distinctive landmark and meeting place on the London jazz scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
April 2011 - Gwynedd Duncan-Jones asks after Ron Brown, assistant editor of JJ around 1970
 April 2011 - The Norwich Jazz Party is here and with over 30 leading modern mainstream names it promises an encyclopedically swing-packed weekend.
 April 2011 - George Benson plays his only UK date in 2011 at Kenwood House, Hampstead on 2 July.
 April 2011 - The main jazz component of the 2011 Proms season is trombonist Jiggs Whigham conducting the BBC Big Band in a programme of music marking the centenary of Stan Kenton
 April 2011 - The adoption of indie rock by latterday jazz types has, it seems, crossed fearsomely into the mainstream with the advent of 'modern day pop artist and musical revolutionary' Elew, and the ’inspired melding of ragtime, rock and pop that he calls Rockjazz’.
 April 2011 - Scott Henderson, perhaps the first guitarist to suggest a combination of the legato approach of Allan Holdsworth and the bop and blues style of John Scofield in one singular voice, finally headlines his own UK dates in May.
.jpg "Tony Levin's favourite drum solo") April 2011 - Writing on Tony Levin in April Jazz Journal, Mark Gardner encapsulates the eclectic voice of the late British drummer, revealing his earliest and most abiding influences and his explanation of the attraction of free improvisation.
 March 2011 - “We are the The Jazz you know,” announced Mike Garrick.“Perhaps you’d dig a few odd poems? Maybe some of Wilfred’s: maybe some of me Owens ... So let’s see how the evening goes, for jazz is poetry; never prose!”
 May 2011 - Fish Meadow at Upton-upon-Severn is the place to be for a feast of mainstream jazz this weekend, with over 40 bands in riverside marquees and superb musicianship of the kind epitomised by Karen Sharp (right)
 February 2011 - Impresario George Wein talked to passengers on the MS Noordam jazz cruise in February, as reported by Keith McDowall in April JJ, telling them 'I never made a dime but I got a living.'
 March 2011 - Britain's mainstream mainman Brian Peerless and colleagues have assembled a blitz of the best in swinging jazz for the spring, including Rossano Sportiello, Ken Peplowski, Scott Hamilton, Houston Person, Howard Alden/Jeanne Gies and Daryl Sherman.
.jpg "Ascona jazz festival 23 June to 3 July") April 2011 - The Ascona Jazz Festival, renowned for its focus on classic jazz, has Jon Faddis, Dan Barrett, Lillian Boutté and more.
 with actor Krister Henriksson (the Swedish Wallander) and Kristers wife, the actress Cecilia Nilsson.jpg "Ystad Jazz Festival 4-7 August") March 2011 - Pat Martino, Dave Douglas, Toots Thielemans, Jan Lundgren, John Surman and Scott Hamilton are among the big names at the second jazz festival in the Swedish town made famous by Kurt Wallander
 CC.jpg "Stretches of Spain") March 2011 - The owner of the El Secadero jazz club in Alhendín near Granada has been jailed for two and a half years and ordered to pay €27,000 compensation for making excessive noise over a 12-year period.
 April 2011 - First names released for the 2011 North Sea Jazz Festival (Rotterdam, 8-10 July) include Ahmad Jamal, Return To Forever (Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Jean-Luc Ponty, Frank Gambale) and Branford Marsalis, with full list to follow end of April.
 February 2011 - Simon Adams finds the jazz festival missing link in north Kent at ’the UK’s first literary festival devoted to music criticism’, with Robert Wyatt, Steve Beresford and others.
 March 2011 - Welsh-born pianist's 60th birthday concert, 18 March 2011, Purcell Room, London
 March 2011 - Melvin Sparks, guitarist on numerous soul-jazz and organ combo dates from the late 60s onwards, died on 13 March 2011.
 March 2011 - A scheme has been launched to transfer the manuscript scores of jazz composer Neil Ardley onto Sibelius software and make them widely available. Ardley led the legendary New Jazz Orchestra in the 1960s and 70s and recorded a series of acclaimed albums.
 February 2011 - Newly discovered work by Miles Davis arranger Gil Evans is being recovered and prepared for recording in 2012, centenary of Evans' birth.
 February 2011 - The title of saxophonist Peter King's autobiography - Flying High: A Jazz Life And Beyond - conceals the other passion of his life, aeromodelling, of which he is a distinguished lifelong devotee. That, Bartók, orchestral composition and more are in the book, published on 23 March.
 February 2011 - The Union Chapel in north London is looking lively for jazz in March, with appearances by the Swingle Singers in Ellington's Sacred Concert and Mike Stern and Avishai Cohen as themselves.
 February 2011 - The Zawinul estate marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of Weather Report in 1971 with the issue of three previously unreleased live German recordings by the group. The first, on 28 March, presents a 41-minute broadcast performance from the Berlin Philharmonie in November 1975.
 April 2011 - Got a record collection to sell or looking for that rarity? The spring edition of the renowned Croydon Record Collectors' Fair takes place Sunday 1 May at Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, CR9 1DG, offering a vast selection of jazz and blues 78s, LPs and CDs.
 February 2011 - Battersea-born pianist George Shearing died in New York of congestive heart failure on 14 February, aged 91. Shearing was renowned for inventing a block-harmony sound for quintet based on the Glenn Miller horn section style but adopting the harmony of bebop. A full obituary by Bruce Crowther will appear in the April issue of Jazz Journal.
 April 2011 - Leo Green, son of broadcaster Benny Green, sees BluesFest London (27 June-3 July, 2011) as the first event of its kind since the late lamented Capital/JVC Festival of the 1980s.
 February 2011 - Tony Levin, British jazz drummer who moved convincincly between mainstream jazz and free improvisation in a career that included work with Tubby Hayes, Humphrey Lyttelton, Keith Tippett and Paul Dunmall, died 3 February. A tribute by Mark Gardner will appear in the April issue of Jazz Journal.
 February 2011 - Mike Gibbs makes a rare return from his current base in Malaga to guest with the Pizza Express Jazz Orchestra at the Pizza Express, Dean St, London on 13 February. Read about Mike in our June 2008 edition, available now in back numbers
 February 2011 - The acclaimed British trio Phronesis begin a tour in February, calling at Sherborne Jazz Club (12), St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton (13), North Devon Jazz Club, Appledore (14), St Ives Jazz Club, Cornwall (15) and more.
 February 2011 - The Barbican Centre, London has announced its spring 2011 programme, including Kurt Elling with Richard Galliano and Tommy Smith’s Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, JJ January cover subject Esperanza Spalding with her Chamber Music Society and Charlie Haden’s London Concerts.
 February 2011 - A February highlight at London Dean St Pizza Express is two nights (16 & 17) featuring another of US bassist Michael Janisch’s all-star presentations. This time it’s the Kenny Wheeler Quintet with John Taylor and acclaimed US saxophonist Jon Irabagon.
 February 2011 - The programme for this year’s Gateshead International Jazz Festival (25-27 March) has been announced and features a headline appearance by Debbie Harry and The Jazz Passengers in concert with the Sage Gateshead’s resident orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia.
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