This album is a significant one in the Evans discography, for it dates from the time when he was introducing electric (and later electronic)...

This is probably Garner's most famous record, and it has at times been fashionable to be rather snooty about it. I really can't see...

Both these issues signal a return to the 'electronic' Getz of a decade or so ago - obviously enough in the Emarcy's case, since...

Roy Hargrove, who made a very positive mark with the group Generations at last year's JVC New York Festival, is an habitual jam session...

A jazz prodigy before it was fashionable to be such, Chris Hunter made his mark in London in the early 1980s with NYJO, Mike...

Pete Rugolo, master jazz arranger, "learned by trial and error." Rugolo, born 1915 in Sicily, one-time Stan Kenton alter ego and latterly leading contemporary...

With instrumentation varying from one track to the next, with all man­ner of flutes, kotos and Senegalese percussion involved, this looked like a rewarding...

Bob Wilber has gathered as reliable a bunch of stalwart jazzmen you would hope to find in order to record his special arrangements of...

This group has apparently worked together for some four years, and the accompanying promotional leaflet frankly acknowledges the in­fluences of "Ornette Coleman's famous quartet...

Don Rendell has consistently represented a peak in British jazz achievements, having, in his twin roles as saxophonist and composer and arranger, only peers...

The arts establishment falls over itself in the voguish rush to diversity, but half a century ago the Proms was already open to non-classical music. Martin King heard in Soft Machine an amalgam of Ornette Coleman and Mike Westbrook

'Music is all around us, if only we had ears. There would be no need for concert halls if man could only learn to...