Chris Sheridan found in Cherry's world music moments of riveting melodic or rhythmic grandeur too often swamped in shapeless ...

Fifty years ago, listening to Coryell and McLaughlin (accompanied by Corea, Vitous and Cobham) Barry McRae reckoned ...

Chico Hamilton's saxman reflected on Roland Kirk, Charlie Parker, Pee Wee Russell and more, and worried that the modal style ...

Sinclair Traill said don't worry if Murphy doesn't sing the downhome blues - he's a genuine jazz singer who's produced a damn ...

Gerald Lascelles, while sensing that Hancock was approaching free form, saw him avoiding its pitfalls through the use of ...

Sinclair Traill said don't worry if Murphy doesn't sing the downhome blues - he's a genuine jazz singer who's produced a damn fine vocal disc ...

New and Familiar” is a third album by Estonian rising female jazz pianist and composer Rahel Talts. It consists of 14 ...

Bassist Joe Fonda might lead this set and wrote its seven pieces, but all ears will be directed toward his featured guest, ...

I passed on a recent sold-out gig by Andy Sheppard and the Espen Eriksen trio at Chichester Jazz Club. Why? So I could keep ...

The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music CDGRE 1113X) Fame came relatively late for virtuoso trumpeter Kenny Wheeler. He was 38 years ...

James Baldwin (1924-1987) is considered by many to be one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Born into ...