Forty years ago, JJ covered two concerts - Loose Tubes and Courtney Pine - at the Camden Jazz Week, both reflecting the ...

Fifty years ago, Michael Shera found strings of bass solos and Pedersen's compositions rather dull but seemed to miss two incandescent and redeeming bop solos on Cheryl ...

Liston-Smith's mid-70s records have become articles of faith for acid-jazzers, but 50 years ago, Roger Dean didn't get as far as musicological analysis of his latest, deeming it 'extremely monotonous' ...

Sixty years ago, David Illingworth found Korner's latest not bad despite the forced vocals and 'white' sounding harmonica ...

Sixty years ago, Gerald Lascelles noted that Loussier outclassed other jazzers of the classics because he had obvious and ...

An album of original Hancock compositions, written with the sea in mind. The title theme is a pretty little morsel, well exploited by Hubbard and George Coleman, a large-toned tenor player, who plays ...

Sixty years ago, Michael Shera rated Harriot-Meyers' fusion of jazz and 'probably the most rhythmically complex' music in the ...

Sixty years ago, Steve Voce welcomed a recording of a British band that he remembered in a double bill with Brubeck 'carved ...

(a) Baltimore To Washington; Little Black Train; (b) Who’s Going To Shoe Your Pretty Feet?; (a) Slip Knot; Poor Boy; Mean Talking Blues; (c) Stepstone (19 mins) – (b) Bed On The Floor; (b) Little ...

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, increasingly looks like a major rock and pop festival, with ...

The Genius Of Ray Charles Brian Morton’s sleeve-note questions whether Ray Charles was a jazz singer, an R&B singer or a pop ...