Fifty years ago the US avant-gardist Milo Fine lamented the effect of partisan politics on jazz, hoping that music would ...

American harmonicist plays Monk on diatonic and chromatic instruments, joined by guitar, tuba, bass and percussion ...

Thirty years ago Bruce Crowther noted that the not so early Murphy still approached music with wit, under­standing and ...

While young delegates worried about climate change, concerts showed there is no boundary between European jazz and North ...

Swedish guitar, organ and drums plus guests play with strong technique and invention on melodic sequences over swing and funk ...

Mosaic afford their usual rigorous and comprehensive treatment to the vibist's work, across seven CDs with extensive notes ...

NY band featuring traditional piano trio and suona mix post-bop with oriental reverie and an abstract reharmonisation of ...

US flautist and Malian kora player find and extend the common ground between West African and North American vernacular music ...

Mark Gilbert noticed that Decoy was the most arranged of Davis's comeback albums and marked by John Scofield's contributions ...

Fifty years ago Barry McRae enjoyed what was essentially a jazz record, featuring Gato Barbieri, Julie Tippetts, Dave Holland ...

Singer and bassist Farnon led Dave Newton (p) and Phil Johnson (d) in a set including GAS classics and Stevie Wonder’s For ...

Norwegian big band plays original charts mixing pop, jazz, funk and orchestral flavours, sometimes reminding of Weather ...