204 articles
Mark Gilbert
Mark Gilbert was deputy editor, Jazz Journal, 1981-1999, editor from 2009 to present, a leading British contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and has written for other jazz histories. The guitar plays (or should be played more in order to be) a prominent part in his musical life. Email: editor[at]jazzjournal.co.uk
Kurt Elling joins Guy Barker for Christmas at the Hall
In what is becoming a fixture in the festive calendar, trumpeter Guy Barker brings his Christmas big band show back to the Royal Albert...
Tapping into jazz
Tap dancing might usually be associated with an earlier epoch of jazz but the affinity between tap and jazz has always been strong in...
Preview: Cambridge Jazz Festival 2019
The Cambridge Jazz Festival, sponsored by Brewin Dolphin, is back in its fifth incarnation 13-24 November with a wide spread of styles from John...
Scarborough Jazz Festival 2019: a jazz tonic at the Spa
Reviewing the 2018 Scarborough Jazz Festival for Jazz Journal, Brian Payne found a "plethora of riveting performances from an array of top class bands"....
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Matt Olson: 789 Miles
“Jazz Is the Teacher, Funk Is the Preacher” goes the title of Soul Jazz Records 2018 compilation featuring Funkadelic, Gil Scott-Heron, Don Cherry and...
Preview: Leeds Jazz Festival 2019
In its third year the Leeds Jazz Festival brings a host of leading jazz names to the city over the long weekend of 18-21...
Cruising on a blue note
Have a taste for jazz from the classic Blue Note label and don't mind soaking it up aboard a luxury cruise liner on the...
Preview: Llandudno Jazz Festival 2019
The Llandudno Jazz Festival once again brings a rich array of mainstream to modern jazz to the north Wales coast in July. Local and...
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Chris Barber: 70 years and still on the road
Chris Barber, often regarded as the godfather of modern British popular music thanks to his introduction of US blues artists into the UK in...
Saxophonist Tony Woods tours Hidden Fires
John Robert Brown, reviewing Tony Woods' album Hidden Fire in Jazz Journal March 2018 wrote "Woods has developed into one of the UK’s stronger...
Jimmy Webb: ‘I love chords, and so do jazz musicians’
Something connects Jimmy Webb, writer of such intriguing pop songs as Wichita Lineman and MacArthur Park with jazz. In their original form his tunes...
Steve Fishwick: ‘I can’t get behind the attitude that new is always somehow better than old’
Marshian Time Slip (reviewed in JJ by Derek Ansell) is much inspired by Warne Marsh. What fascinates about Marsh?
Marsh, along with Lennie Tristano and...
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