Bassist and composer Ursula Harrison, winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024, didn’t have to cast widely for an influential ...

The gestation of Chris Sansom’s magnum opus suffered a 50-year hiatus. Sansom composed his four-part suite for nonet – ...

The Joel Frahm Trio, consisting of tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm, bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Ernesto Cervini has existed ...

All but two of the charts on Doo’s Blues, the Dusko Goykovich album I review below, are by the Serbian trumpeter himself, ...

Steve Gadd witnessed and sat in with legendary organist Jack McDuff at an early age, so it’s been satisfying in recent years to see the now 79-year-old drummer gravitating back towards his early love ...

This 11-CD set is a collection of 1943-1949 swing-era and early bop recordings originally made exclusively for the US armed ...

Three albums this month that show the sheer diversity of music that comes under the jazz umbrella. Seriously finds three ...

The New Talent imprint of the Spanish Fresh Sound label puts relatively unknown artists in the spotlight and their releases ...

Performing on nearly 700 albums (150 as a leader) Phil Woods kept the bebop flame burning brightly throughout a long and ...

If there’s a common theme linking this month’s releases then it must surely be rhythm. The first two come from composers ...

This previously unreleased live double album from Copenhagen’s Jazzhus Montmartre features the French master in a magnificent ...

Welsh born, New Orleans-based chanteuse Judith Owen has just released her 15th album. Backed by her 17-piece J.O. Big Band, ...