Herbie Hancock's excellent series of Blue Note albums continues with The Prisoner, where he has chosen to write for a nine- or eleven-piece group....

We live in an era when eclecticism is daily a new discovery for the arts publicist, but 50 years ago jazz in the person of the 'derivative' Keith Tippett met classical, embodied by John Williams, at Ronnie's. Review by Ron Brown first published in Jazz Journal June 1970

In 1970 Fred Bouchard got the opinions of Carol Sloane (b. 1937, leader of dates on Columbia, Concord, HighNote and Arbors) on singers including Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cleo Laine, Aretha Franklin, and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. First published in Jazz Journal June 1970

It has always been a feature of jazz that bands are short-lived. Such is the ferment in current jazz that there must be changes,...

This album leaves me as dissatisfied and unconvinced as I was after hearing Jimmy Giuffre on his recent tour of England. I am not...

'There was a heap of things that Miles could have said there, but he left them all out. He plays in one straight line...

The trustees of the National Jazz Archive, the jazz library resource founded in 1988 by trumpeter Digby Fairweather and supported by Essex County Council...

Reflecting recent events, BBC Radio 3's Saturday afternoon jazz programme, J to Z, devotes its 20 June broadcast to jazz as a protest against...

Laura Clark heard a dedication to the biblical character, the tormented scat cadenzas making her wish Job’s suffering would come to an end

Opening with a drum solo, this vintage fusion set reminds us of an era when drum gymnastics were a mandatory part of the fusion...

New evidence of Mike Stern's move towards a lyrical sensibility comes with this third in a series of albums for Atlantic. Noted for his...

The influences (Powell, Tyner, Ellington), the bands (Return To Forever and Circle) and those clueless critics. A 1970 interview with the pianist and composer by Elliot Meadow. First published in Jazz Journal May 1980