Atlanta-born jazz pianist Joe Alterman was in the middle of a soundcheck at New York’s Blue Note in 2012 when a ...

Co-authors Barnett Singer (professor emeritus of history at Brock University, Ontario) and Jesse Read (professor emeritus and former director of the School of Music at the University of British ...

I first heard a large proportion of my all-time favourite British/Britain-based jazz musicians, live or on record, when they ...

George Shearing (eventually Sir George) was one of the first British jazz musicians to make a significant mark on the US ...

Thirty years ago, Simon Adams heard some excellent playing in Winter Truce - when the clutter and chaos cleared for long ...

Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert thought that among a trio of Mainieri issues, his skilful jazz adaptations of American ...

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Thirty years ago, faced with a particularly constrained repertoire session, Michael Tucker asked 'Just how many Keith Jarrett ...

Forty years ago, John Postgate thought Horizons, plagued by 'self-indulgent maunderings', would have been quite a jazz record ...

It’s difficult to review this album without explaining the influence (or rather, influences) behind it. The whole project was ...

October 2025, including Keith Oxman, Nigel Price, Doug Raney, Emma Rawicz and Redtenbacher's Funkestra // Editor's pick: ...

Forty years ago, Simon Adams thought that although Jarrett's return to standards might suggest a retreat there was no ...