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...

Landæus, Mathias; de Heney, Nina; Osgood, Kresten: Dissolving Patterns They say :  Veterans of the Scandinavian jazz and improvisation scene - pianist Mathias Landæus, bassist Nina...

Roy Ayers was a virtuoso jazz vibraphone player and multi-instrumentalist, but he was also able, in the 1970s, to bring jazz substance into R&B,...

Hague, Andy: Big Band - Live At The Lantern They say :  Live recording of a sold-out gig in Bristol featuring many of the city's best...

Ebba Åsman: When You Know They say :  Nothing. (Dorado Records) Echt!: Boilerism They say :  Since ECHT!’s debut, one question remained: should their music be heard live or...

C'mon Tigre: Ten They say :  Ten is an expanded edition of C'mon Tigre's iconic Self Titled debut album, which was initially published in 2015. Fans...

Though not a Petrucciani fan, Richard Palmer thought 30 years ago that the pianist's latest, featuring fusion specialist Adam Holzman, was very agreeable, if no better than Shakatak's similar work