To The Slaughter In his note for this one Soweto Kinch highlights how he considers the long-form suite that comprises this ...

Arakatak Metropole is the long-established Netherlands juggernaut jazz orchestra and, almost by definition, a minimalist ...

This release brings together two Billy Taylor albums from 1960 where he unveiled a new trio line-up, Custom Taylored being a studio outing and Uptown a live performance captured at New York’s Prelude.

Paramount Quartet Long one of my favourite saxophonists, over the years Lovano has led or appeared on many a terrific session ...

The A to JazZ Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Sofia’s South Park 2, a leafy setting in one of the few European ...

Take Twelve When writing about Lee Morgan, reference is almost always given to the influence of Clifford Brown, especially in ...

Global Prayer Musical cultures collide and blend on Global Prayer. American pianist Chase Morrin heads the Ize Trio with ...

This is a book of photographs taken at the recording sessions described above (and elsewhere) during the early 1960s. Before ...

Jelly Roll Morton told us that if you don’t have a Spanish tinge in your music you don’t have jazz. He was referring to the ...

So Many Lovely Things, Live In Brecon This previously unreleased concert was recorded at the Brecon Jazz Festival in Christ ...

Birth Of The Cool Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan were both writing for the Claude Thornhill orchestra in the late 40s when it ...

Matt Brennan is a drummer, and protégé of socio-musicologist Simon Frith. As Brennan rightly comments, it’s bizarre that there’s been no book-length scholarly history of his instrument. Adolphe Sax is ...