Bassist and composer Ursula Harrison, winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024, didn’t have to cast widely for an influential ...
The Joel Frahm Trio, consisting of tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm, bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Ernesto Cervini has existed ...
The gestation of Chris Sansom’s magnum opus suffered a 50-year hiatus. Sansom composed his four-part suite for nonet – ...
All but two of the charts on Doo’s Blues, the Dusko Goykovich album I review below, are by the Serbian trumpeter himself, ...
Ostrów’s series of jazz concerts titled “Jazz at the Museum” celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The originator of the ...
Neither Abercrombie or Scofield has made his name as a stan­dards player, though you can bet that both have got that side of ...
This 11-CD set is a collection of 1943-1949 swing-era and early bop recordings originally made exclusively for the US armed ...
The New Talent imprint of the Spanish Fresh Sound label puts relatively unknown artists in the spotlight and their releases ...
Three albums this month that show the sheer diversity of music that comes under the jazz umbrella. Seriously finds three ...
If there’s a common theme linking this month’s releases then it must surely be rhythm. The first two come from composers ...
On the face of it, this is the kind of release I would normally pass by, dismissing it as just another set of standards with ...
Many will know 50-year-old Victor Feldman from his stints with such artists as Cannonball Adderley and Peggy Lee. In recent ...