'Miles Davis, although he has now become a cult, remains to me too much on one plane. I could do with a little more variety of mood, but that seems to be the way it goes today - everyone must specialize in a mood as a jazz player. Personally I think a jazz player should be able to express anything from sheer misery to proud exuberance, but they can't seem to do it these days'

Ben Harris, who studied at Berklee School of Music 1974-6 with Bill Curtis of the Boston Pops and with John Neves, has lately renewed...

New York saxophonist Daniel Bennett will be known to Jazz Journal readers for his indefatigably positive approach to jazz, as evinced in Bruce Lindsay's...

That venerable tradition of liaison between jazz and 'straight' music was extended in late January when Loose Tubes, the ageing enfants terribles of the...

Courtney Pine has been mistakenly placed on a pedestal by the media. Keen to praise him as the new redeemer of British jazz, they...

No jazz autobiography has been more eagerly awaited than that of Miles Dewey Davis III, jazz music's venerable Prince of Darkness, the highly durable...

There was no charisma about the group, no show-biz patina - just good, honest musicianship and the conviction of players who believe and exalt...

First of all, The Jazz Gallery is an 'art' gallery which will be given over to jazz concerts here and there. Secondly, Sheila was performing...

In memory of the outstanding Camerounian composer and saxophonist Manu Dibango, who died 24 March 2020 aged 86 following treatment for COVID-19, here's a...

A few of the musicians and composers who reside at the London Musical Club decided that weekends there were a bit too quiet. One...

This is probably the most powerful jazz record I've heard since 'The Individualism of Gil Evans', and one of Miles' most significant since 'Kind...

This is a collection of pieces which Philip Larkin wrote for the Daily Telegraph over a period of years. His introduction contains an account...