Superlatives are notorious in jazz criticism, but Molde really is a very special event in the jazz calendar. What musicians and fans alike appreci­ate...

Gail Thompson has assembled a very useful big band and together with Andy Macintosh provided some good tunes for it to play. The fortunate...

An interesting mixture of sources here: R&B, blues, folk, rock and popular - and also some original material. To all the songs on this...

Among Allan Holdsworth's refer­ences are jobs with Tony Wil­liams' Lifetime, Soft Machine, Bill Bruford and John Stevens. In re­cent years he has led his...

Women have barely impinged on jazz except as vocalists and pian­ists; the guest stars are living proof of the stupidity of this situa­tion. Over...

Last year, Charles Alexander of the International Jazz Federation brought two of America's better known jazz educators to London's Goldsmiths' College to hold a...

This LP is a setting of words from 'How It Is' (1964) by Samuel Beckett, interspersed with instru­mental passages. Extensive use of multi-tracking allows...

As the final concert of this year's South Bank Summer Music season, on August 24th, Andre Previn and a ten-piece band were advertised to...

By-passing 'Bitches' Brew' I thought I had finally lost Miles Davis somewhere around 'On the Corner'. I should have known bet­ter: people of Miles's...

Sixty years ago Jazz Journal welcomed the arrival of BBCTV's Jazz 625 series, which would turn out to be historic. It's been variously reshown, but why not now in place of endless TOTP, Queen and Bowie reruns? First published in Jazz Journal September 1964

Sixty years ago Mark Gardner welcomed Mobley's new album as a hard-driving mainstream-modern antidote to the new wave. Odd assessment of Hancock and Hill, though. First published in Jazz Journal September 1964

If you listen to young jazz publicists you might be persuaded that the nominal boundaries between jazz and classical are only now being breached. But 60 years ago Mark Gardner heard Bill Le Sage effectively blending 12-tone composition, cellos and jazz soloists