In November 2024 the seemingly indefatigable saxophonist Art Themen celebrates his 85th birthday and this record marks that ...

My baptism into live jazz began with concerts by three legendary pianists at what was then called the New Victoria ...

Italian guitarist Dall’Asta has achieved considerable success with his fusion of “gypsy jazz” and popular music to produce ...

If you’re lilywhite and the Dutch Peter Bernstein and you got ambitions to set up a new project, better switch to ud or ehru ...

All of you who retain fond memories of Weber & Fields, Wheeler & Woolsey, two-a-day for Keith and such could have done worse ...

Young Anders Malta, a student in 2016, heard the visiting Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band and was impressed. The Danish ...

The Chicago-based singer, mentored by Barbara Lea and highly rated in the US jazz press, talks about how and what she chooses ...

Roger Cotterrell remembers an unsung 50s modernist, ultimately eclipsed when avant-garde focus shifted from composition to ...

Teasing liner notes often amuse in telling one little about the music being played. This is especially true of the latest ...

Helena Debono is a classically trained vocalist who worked with NYJO in 2019 and 2020. She is a well-rounded musician equally ...

Songwriter Ross Lorraine teams up with Claire Martin (as co-producer and backing vocalist) for a second album of emotionally ...

Given my longstanding appreciation of jazz that traverses the genre boundaries, it’s perhaps not surprising that each of the ...