Sixty years ago Peter Tanner felt short-changed by Brubeck's pretentious, jazz-free exoticism, finding the cover painting and the Japanese poetry the best part of the production

Sixty years ago the distinguished British trumpeter appraised such as Howard McGhee, Louis Armstrong and Clark Terry and preferred the 'brash' Gillespie and rocking Lee Morgan to the doomy Miles

The 51st International Jazz Pianists Festival in Kalisz, Poland came to an end on 24 November 2024. Just as for last year's jubilee edition...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert traced Miles Davis's journey from lumpen rock-jammer to sophisticated jazz-rocker through seven albums, 1975-1984

Thirty years ago Richard Palmer loved a duo between pianist Newton and the saxophonist who asked, in the first throes of the UK's endless jazz boom, 'This constant search for innova­tion is a bit negative. What's wrong with just being good?'

Thirty years ago Michael Tucker hailed the classical-jazz fusion that Tony Coe went on to describe in a 2004 listening test as 'all kind of moody - very contrived and manipulative'

Many people cross our paths, and if we are lucky, meaningful relationships develop with those who touch us in the most inspiring way. One...

Neither Abercrombie or Scofield has made his name as a stan­dards player, though you can bet that both have got that side of things...

Many will know 50-year-old Victor Feldman from his stints with such artists as Cannonball Adderley and Peggy Lee. In recent times he has done...

On the face of it, this is the kind of release I would normally pass by, dismissing it as just another set of standards...

Ostrów's series of jazz concerts titled “Jazz at the Museum” celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The originator of the event, Jerzy Wojciechowski, announced...

Fifty years ago Barry McRae witnessed a London jazz festival that catered for all shades of jazz opinion, from Bobby Hackett through Joachim Kuhn to Nucleus