Getting Down To Business is Dr Byrd's second recording for Landmark, and like the first, Har­lem Blues (Landmark LCD-1516-2), brings further evidence of his...

This double was originally issued as 'Soulmates' by Riverside, with the last four tracks coming from a Bill Harris album made by Fantasy. And...

Forty years ago, when opinion was still rife in British arts criticism, the JJ letters page erupted after editor Eddie Cook took issue with music, deportment and tailoring at the Nice festival. First published in Jazz Journal 1980

From the opening bars of the first number Sonny Rollins achieved instantaneous rapport with the capacity audience whilst also revealing his complete physical absorption...

Fifty years ago, Derrick Stewart-Baxter interviewed the man who, apparently coincidentally, produced a scat-singing parallel to Coltrane. First published in Jazz Journal December 1970

The attractions of the excellent playing of Jean-Luc Ponty will, one hopes, influence jazz listeners to turn on to the work of Frank Zappa,...

Blue Note have been a little tardy in getting this session out but even after a delay of three years the music sounds good. Morgan's...

This is the same group I enjoyed at the 100 Club recently; I wrote about them in June this year, and at that time...

Sixty years ago trumpeter Muggsy Spanier reacted to music from Ben Webster ('no real feeling for jazz'), Bobby Hackett ('can’t be missed'), Cecil Scott ('awful trombone'), Dizzy Gillespie ('beautiful'), Humphrey Lyttelton ('outstanding'), Chris Barber ('corny') and others

This selection sent me back at once to the "Blue Harriott" EP which came out at the beginning of the year. A much more...

This makes a nice bedside book on jazz, for nearly all the forty six articles are pithy, to the point and easily readable. They...

It is perhaps stating the obvious to say that for some time now McLean has been considerably more than a mere Parker copyist, and...