This is one of a series of taped interviews with musicians who are asked to give a snap opinion on a set of records...

London-based alto saxophonist Sam Braysher plays London and Brighton 20th January in duo with pianist Michael Kanan. The pair draw on the original sheet music of standards in an attempt to get close to the composer’s "original intention"

I enjoyed Brian Morton's Alt. takes (JJ 1218) and particularly his notes on Joe Henderson (tho' I'd read a seed catalogue if Brian's name were the...

Some people really do have a way with words, and there were fine examples in the Jazz Journal 1119. Charlie Wood's lovely, off-beat descriptions...

It's always interesting how we "old-timers" got into the music. For me, it was what American writer Edward Allen Faine describes in his books...

Jazz Journal readers will be saddened by the death of Alun Morgan. As an obituarist noted, "Alan’s articles and sleeve notes served as an...

Many years before we first met, Alun Morgan was a huge and lasting influence on my jazz listening and helped shape my taste for...

In Jazz Journal 1118 there are several references to “Ed Blackwell” in the article, review and advertisement sections. When I recorded Blackwell (with Karl...

My father ran a butcher's shop in Hereford and the family lived in a flat above the shop. Diagonally across the road was a...

It was good to see Barry Witherden’s piece on Mike Osborne. Ossie was one of a select group of unique and original players who...

Steve Voce gave a good review and awarded four stars to the Mike Gibbs three-CD set, Festival 69 (JJ 1218).  Unfortunately the details given...

I disagree with Graham Colombé in his review of the Complete Aladdin Recordings of Lester Young about the "occasionally disappointing . . . session...