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

Present This is the eminent Swedish vocalist Nyberg’s 25th release. It follows her excellent collaboration with the Bohuslän ...

Four With more than 30 albums under his belt as leader and having established and directed the Scottish National Jazz ...

Approximately one year ago – 28 September 2025 but who’s counting – I attended, and reported on in these very pages, an event ...

Here Is Donato! Master trombonist Ray Keberle has studied at both the Manhattan School of Music, where he was mentored by ...

Organik Neither organist Pete Whittaker nor percussionist Gary Hammond, being custodians of the heavy armoury in guitarist Deirdre Cartwright’s trio, lifts the lid on what in the wrong hands can be ...

What Next?  Musicians grounded in jazz have often looked further afield to expand their repertoire, moving towards non-Western patterns, cyclical rather than linear progressions and embracing a common ...

Get Out And Get Under The Moon Widely acknowledged as the male vocalist of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra is still ...

Pat Metheny and Side-Eye III+ at the Barbican, London Jazz Journal - 23 July 2026 ...

Though events like the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival are longtime institutions, the DC Jazz Fest saw excellent participation and ...

The ECM record label still surprises and delights, digging out – I assume from Fred Hersch’s archive – this previously unknown set of duos he recorded in his own studio in New York with guitarist Mick ...