Sporting a green trumpet à la Miles, Paul Higgs started his set with Milestones (the streamlined modal tune from 1958) and ...

The Grammy awards have been accused of under-representing women in nominations and awards and facilitating a female-positive ...

Various: Scarborough Jazz Festival 2024 This double CD was recorded at last year’s Scarborough Jazz Festival. CD1 runs to ...

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post-civil war reconstruction and early jazz. The term “brassroots democracy” ...

Guitarist Lionel Loueke hails from Benin, West Africa and his roots are instantly evident here. His playing sounds ...

Schubert Now! (BMC Records, BMC CD3298) Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain ...

This haunting album, reissued in ECM’s Luminescence vinyl series, features intense improvising and memorable compositions. As ...

The full lineup for the 2025 Cheltenham Jazz Festival (30 April-5 May) has been announced as follows below. Aside from the ...

Andy Hamilton advises of a funding campaign to replace the historic saxophone stolen from Archbishop King of San Francisco on ...

There is an old saying here in the UK: “One’s man muck is another man’s brass”, and, in the arena of jazz – especially in ...

Live At Slugs (Blue Note) On tour after his departure from John Coltrane’s classic quartet at the end of 1965, McCoy Tyner ...

The homage is a main ingredient in jazz. Not a week seems to go by without the release of a tribute album. Noteworthy ...