Sixty years ago, before his UK work permit expired, Mark Murphy remarked on such as Jimmy Rushing, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Turner, on the idiocy of likening Cleo Laine to Billie Holiday and on the negativity creeping in among young jazz players

Sixty years ago David Rosenthal noted how well Bill Evans, a white musician likely familiar at first with only the crude and very simple rhythms of Western music, had assimilated the subtleties typical of African and Indian expression

Sixty years ago Graham Boatfield was unexcited by what he saw primarily as a Coltrane-primed session featuring Trane rhythm men McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones

Sixty years ago, Sinclair Traill thought Young a tasteful organist and creative composer who, with Sam Rivers, Grant Green and Elvin Jones, had produced an album that, while it held no surprise, didn't annoy or irritate

Sixty years ago Gerald Lascelles complimented Previn's technique and performance but in jazz terms found his work shallow and predictable

The 2025 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, has evolved over the last 20 years from its original format...

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Pete McGuiness Jazz Orchestra, Theo Travis, Bugge Wesseltoft, Becca Wilkins and Savina Yannatou // Editor's pick: The Action 4s

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Joshua Redman, Scandinavian Art Ensemble (w. Tomasz Stańko) and Martin Speake & Will Butterworth // Editor's pick: Steve Holt Jazz Impact Quintet

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, Harvey Mason, Bennie Maupin, Pat Metheny and Hedvig Mollestad || Editor's pick: Mehldau, Turner, Bernstein

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Goran Kajfeš, Matthew Kilner, Lagon Nwar, Germana La Sorsa, Ingrid Laubrock and Joe Lovano // Editor's pick: Lagon Nwar

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Phil Haynes, Arve Henriksen, Freddie Hubbard, Jon Irabagon and Naïssam Jalal // Editor's pick: Rita Hargrave and Wayne Wallace

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Bill Frisell, Sakoto Fujii, Macy Gray and Trilok Gurtu // Editor's picks: Joanna Eden, EH3, Ronan Guilfoyle