Koo Nimo, a leading 93-year-old highlife musician and apparently the first Ghanaian to release an album of his own music, ...

Renowed trombonist Fedchock’s live recording of his tribute to J.J. Johnson’s centennial, using Johnson’s original charts, ...

Economics precipitated the end of the big-band era at least 10 years before Terry Gibbs formed his Dream Band. By the mid-50s ...

Celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new album, new line-up and a documentary film created by BAFTA and Emmy award ...

Immediately the music of London-based group Boom Yer reminds of those late 90s bands Jamiroquai and The Brand New Heavies so ...

Harken! is the fourth album from Threeway, the drumless jazz trio comprising Steve Waterman (t, flh), Steve Lodder (p, org) ...

Tin Pan Alley/American Songbook is as far removed from contemporary cinema as Mickey Mouse from Hannibal Lector. In the 1920s-50s, this rich source of songs and the big screen were Siamese twins. It’s ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert hailed McLaughlin's adoption of unequivocal, straightahead jazz, albeit with vibrato bar, in a new trio with Joey DeFrancesco and Dennis Chambers. First published in Jazz ...

I’ve had cause recently to criticise a couple of Latin-influenced ses­sions for their show-off ‘hit or shake everything in reach’ atti­tude allied to minimal jazz input, so let me welcome with ...

Since its inception seven years ago, the Hidden Jazz Club has grown in influence and reputation with one key distinguishing feature – at time of booking the lineup is not available and only becomes so ...

JJ writers chose their favourite releases - or jazz experiences - from 2024. As might expected with such a now teeming and mature art as jazz, there’s no consensus, but plenty of enthusiasm. However, ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert sensed a lot of style and not much of coherent content in the second album from Ornette Coleman's Prime Time bassist. First published in Jazz Journal December 1984 The ...