Following in the footsteps of his mould-breaking An American Diary (reviewed November 1995), the cleverly titled Man Behind ...

More of the same, plus a lot of that’s different from Scofield this time. The familiar aspect is his sterling work as a ...

Ben soon became noted in the early stages of his career for his inventively bustling, hard-blowing tenor in numbers such as Cotton Tail with Ellington in 1940. In mid-career, on albums such as this, ...

The title is a good one because it describes, knowingly or other­wise, what happened to the jazz-classical hybrid called Third Stream. When the first seven selections were recorded Zawinul was ...

Forty years ago, the celebrated US composer recounted his musical career and gave details of the nature and influence of his ...

Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert admired the virtuosic playing and sophisticated writing of a young guitarist who would become a ...

They say : To see wholeness and beauty in a broken, exhausted, fragmented world, and to feel joy in spite of it all: that is Emaho, an exclamation of wonder from Old Tibetan. Sung in three syllables, ...

Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert heard the sopranist skirting around the harmony of Donna Lee, in touch with the changes, but ...

October 2026, including Toshiko Akiyoshi, Eric Alexander, Lynne Arriale, Jerry Bergonzi // Editor's pick: Eric Alexander ...

Much of this style of music is full of breakneck tremolo and fast-changing rhythms, placing serious demands on drummer ...

Sixty years ago, Mark Gardner said the smokin' caught fire in parts but didn't specifically mention Montgomery's spectacular ...

Sixty years ago, David Illingworth, keen to compare Blues Breakers to its inspirations, couldn't have known that it would ...