The Forum is a concert hall in Hatfield, Herts. I recently caught the Woody Herman Thundering Herd there, and it was the first time...

This was recorded, like so many LPs these days, at a festival, and all the themes are by Coltrane or Tyner himself. As I...

Another title for this double album might be 'Coals To Newcastle', for it contains three European musicians playing music that originated in America, to...

Here is another inexpressibly dull LP that virtually defies comment. Connors is an efficient guitarist, and there is something almost masterly in his consistent...

Fifty years ago, Graham Boatfield enjoyed Tony Russell demolishing the artificial barriers between blacks, whites and blues. First published in Jazz Journal, September 1970

July's visitors to Ronnie Scott's were the Shelly Manne Sextet, a group of young players led by the doyen of West Coast percussionists, Shelly...

Chris McGregor's brilliant pick-up group seems to be making more and more public appearances. In our last issue Pete Gamble, reporting on their successful...

The only way to approach an album of this nature is to judge it by the standards it sets itself. The rock/jazz group inevitably...

The Westbrook group which appeared at the Phoenix in July turned out to be a sort of mini big band, drawn from his larger...

This is a brilliant study of the whole of jazz, told through the medium of analyses of the work of some of its greatest...

Fifty years ago the renowned saxophonist talked to John Shaw of his beginnings in Harlem, of Charlie Parker and of Count Basie. Regarding the future of jazz, he feared the public won't pay 'to hear a guy wearing a sheet go rootle tootle, rootle tootle, up and down the scale'

This is a record by one of the greatest hot trumpeters in jazz; he plays his horn over a pounding rock beat which establishes...