A short while ago, Gearbox released a critically acclaimed album by saxophonist Alan Wakeman’s Octet, a reissue of two BBC Jazz Club recordings from 1969...
Candid Records, founded in 1960 and home to celebrated recordings by Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln and others, is relaunched this month with the reissue of five well-known 1961 sessions.
Candid, owned for some while by Andy Williams, was acquired in 1989 by Englishman Alan Bates, who released the early albums on CD and added many new artists to the roster in...
News of the the death of Victor Schonfield on 3 May 2022 was received with great sadness. He was well known for his writing (including for Jazz Journal) and for supporting and promoting areas of jazz, experimental and improvised music from the 1960s onwards. Born in the London Clinic, Marylebone, “on a quiet night in the Blitz”, 19 December 1940, he grew up and went to the same school as future poet and lyricist...
Arriving from Australia in 1990 Trudy Kerr soon established herself on the UK jazz scene as a highly sensitive performer with a delicate and quite beguiling approach to a lyric. On several well-received recordings she has found common cause with Mulgrew Miller, Jan Lundgren, Georgie Fame, Bob Dorough, Michael Garrick, Jamie Cullum and Acker Bilk to name just a few. She draws inspiration from the songbook repertoire together with frequent salutes to jazz classics...
Although our country has never had and probably never will have a jazz musician of the stature of Louis Daniel Armstrong, it is to our credit that it was upon these shores he came by his nickname of 'Satchmo'. A contraction of Satchelmouth, this happy soubriquet has stuck to him ever since his first visit to Britain in 1932.
Since those early days Pops - as he is affectionately known by his jazz intimates -...
Candid Records, founded in 1960 and home to celebrated recordings by Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln and others, is relaunched this month with...
Among the highlights at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho in April are Dexter Wansel, Monty Alexander, James Morrison, Mike Westbrook, Jason Rebello, Elaine Delmar, Dee...
The guitarists Scott Henderson and Robben Ford appear, separately, at Ronnie Scott's in London in March. Henderson plays one night, 9 March and Ford...
More popular recordings will be reissued this year from Contemporary Records, the Los Angeles-based jazz label which celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2021.
For three...
The French-horn player Jim Rattigan, a fugitive from the classical world long acclimatised to jazz, tours music from his 2021 album When this month....
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