JJ writers chose their favourite releases - or jazz experiences - from 2024. As might expected with such a now teeming and mature art as jazz, there’s no consensus, but plenty of enthusiasm. However, as the only title receiving more than one endorsement, Emily Remler: Cookin’ At The Queens - surely a worthy winner - gets the cover spot...

Soul singer Smokey Robinson is currently top of the billing for what's officially titled the "Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2025". Described in the festival...

Play On! is a new musical, touring England since September and finishing end of February, that features Ashton Moore as musical director and musicians...

Jazz FM gets some celebrity glitter on Christmas Day when Strictly Come Dancing star Anton du Beke joins the presenting team, 1700-1900, to play...

Derek Ansell, who had written for Jazz Journal since the mid-80s, died suddenly, aged 90, on 13 December. He had reported a gastric problem...

The tabla player Zakir Hussain died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco on 16 December at the age of 73. The son of...

French pianist Martial Solal, famous for scoring the music for Jean-Luc Godard's film À Bout De Souffle, died 12 December, aged 97. Born in...

Guitars belonging to the late Jeff Beck, a musician often associated with jazz, are to be auctioned at Christie's in London on 22 January...

The finals of the 10th BBC Young Jazz Musician competition, shown on BBC Four, 24th November, left no doubt that the legacy of hard...

It might have seemed lately that the tastes of British politicians don't extend beyond Taylor Swift and Oasis but on 29 October, at an...

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, known for his bebop and soul-jazz work, died 9 November, aged 98, apparently following complications from pneumonia. His family...

Trumpeter turned arranger Quincy Jones - best known to the general public as the producer of hit Michael Jackson albums after a career spent...