Sara Serpa is a singer of a different order who loosely embodies a strand of “the tradition” in which the taking of risks is ...

Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong is a name most jazz aficionados recognize, having read it in the annals and footnotes of jazz history, but often mistakenly gloss over it in passing as a detail in the ...

Historically there haven’t been too many jazz harmonica players – the blues collared the market. The name of virtuoso Larry ...

Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins’s third album for Blue Note is a big departure for him. As a concept, it’s played out on a broad ...

I don’t rate myself,” asserts saxophonist Art Themen. “I’m just a jobbing musician who’s been very, very lucky.” It’s an ...

Deborah Silver walked on to the stand at Crazy Coqs, grabbed the audience by the scruff of the neck and didn’t let go til ...

In his From March 1979 the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer – a favourites of such distinguished Scandinavians as Jan Garbarek ...

Canadian-born composer and pianist Renee Rosnes is widely respected for a series of small-group albums she made for Blue Note ...

New York City based American pianist and composer Russ Lossing has a singular musical vision that makes him a musician’s ...

Religious and scientific mysteries inspired this duo release from pianist Rachel Eckroth and percussionist John Hadfield. The ...

American saxophonist, composer and educator Benjamin Boone is a virtuoso performer equally at home in the worlds of jazz and ...

Back in 2012 a video kept appearing on my social media. It featured a man in a hat playing double bass with a black labrador ...