Fifty years ago Hugh Witt gave the Kenton band, featuring a young Peter Erskine, a qualified thumbs up, wishing there had been more than glimpses of what would happen if the band took off

Fifty years ago Robert Walton reviewed Legrand's first live London appearance, admired his ability to charm from the first moment and heard Phil Woods match Tubby Hayes in the magical saxophone stakes

Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan found in Cherry's world music moments of riveting grandeur too often swamped in shapeless gouts of sound just as they seemed to be taking him somewhere he wanted to go

Fifty years ago, listening to Coryell and McLaughlin (accompanied by Corea, Vitous and Cobham) Barry McRae reckoned McLaughlin the better player because of his ascetism

Sixty years ago Chico Hamilton's saxman reacted to Roland Kirk, Charlie Parker, Pee Wee Russell and more, and worried that the modal style might be a straitjacket leading to an entirely unemotional way of playing

Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles salivated copiously over the pianist's 'fluid elaborations of pieces we are liable to whistle in the bath'

Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles, while sensing that Hancock was approaching free form, saw him avoiding its pitfalls through the use of sound frameworks and a small ensemble

Sixty years ago Michael Shera heard altoist Harriott hewing closer to hard bop than free form as, with Shake Keane, Pat Smythe, Coleridge Goode and Bobby Orr, he covered some film tunes

Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill found the drummer's debut album contained the ugliest piece of music he had ever heard but conceded that it probably succeeded, as suggested by its pretentious sleeve note, in attempting to give jazz something different

Talts, Rahel: New and Familiar They say :  "New and Familiar" is a third album by Estonian rising female jazz pianist and composer Rahel Talts. It...

Racicot, Ariane: Danser avec le feu They say :  Ariane Racicot - winner of the 2022-2023 Révélation Radio-Canada prize for jazz - announces her second album...

O'Doherty, Caili: Bluer Than Blue They say :  Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong is a name most jazz aficionados recognize, having read it in the annals and...