Plays For Beautiful People The harp is a niche instrument in jazz and seems fiendishly difficult to play, especially when ...

Universal Truth Pianist Emmet Cohen now has now made a number of albums under his own name – this being the fourth for the ...

Pat Metheny is one of those special artists who’s live concerts are highly anticipated events whenever he comes to the UK. He ...

Arakatak Metropole is the long-established Netherlands juggernaut jazz orchestra and, almost by definition, a minimalist ...

To The Slaughter In his note for this one Soweto Kinch highlights how he considers the long-form suite that comprises this ...

Drummer Roy Haynes died after a short illness on 12 November, 2024 in Nassau County, New York, aged 99. His career had spanned playing swing with Lester Young in the late 1940s through bebop with ...

Paramount Quartet Long one of my favourite saxophonists, over the years Lovano has led or appeared on many a terrific session ...

The A to JazZ Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Sofia’s South Park 2, a leafy setting in one of the few European ...

Oliver Murray's film chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of the renowned London club inspired and sustained by a plain and simple everyday obsession with jazz As Ronnie Scott himself said, “only ...

Birth Of The Cool Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan were both writing for the Claude Thornhill orchestra in the late 40s when it ...

This is a book of photographs taken at the recording sessions described above (and elsewhere) during the early 1960s. Before ...

Ten high-profile jazz bassists, along with a few lesser-known names, are interviewed on camera in this 73-minute video. Included are performances of bass solos by some of the participants, all ...