Cross-pollination of excellent musicians made for some amazing jazz in 2008. The year's best CDs find guitarist Lionel Loueke making an appearance on albums by Francisco Mela and Kenny Barron, Mela ...

You never know where the trip will take you. One day you are a teenaged musician sharing the stage with the greatest jazz and rock players in the world. Another day, thirty years later, you are ...

A new book on pianist Bud Powell is something of an event. The first full length book on one of jazz's most dazzling pianists, Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell, was written in French by ...

"Marvins Room" is far and away the prettiest you'll ever hear Drake, courtesy of NEXT Collective, an ensemble of young jazz stars including saxophonists Logan Richardson and Walter Smith III, ...

As part of the Radio 2 Celebrates Jazz season – available now on BBC Sounds - over three programmes, Radio 2 celebrates the life and work of three female jazz legends in Clive Myrie’s Amazing Women of ...

I have been a fan of jazz album cover art for a long time, and have written about some of my favorite cover art. I’ve also enjoyed earlier books devoted to cover art such as Eric Kohler’s In The ...

Whether you love them or you hate them, you have to admit that bagpipes have a certain reputation. Mournful dirges, solemn ceremonies, taking the high road or the low road – those are a few of the ...