David Maker, one-time Jazz FM boss who rejected accusations the station had strayed beyond jazz by pointing out that even ...

Sérgio Mendes may not have been the main originator of bossa nova – one of the most innovative musical movements of the 20th ...

As what passed for summer in the UK turns distinctly to autumn / the downpour season, the tide of jazz-related “product” ...

I first saw DFTC at the London Jazz Festival in 2018 and the band consisted of a mere nine members. I’ve seen them several ...

Is jazz intrinsically left-wing? Judging by the JJ inbox, it’s a question that many might think doesn’t need asking. It ...

You’d probably have to be very keen on Nina Simone’s music to want this book, and the author is, of course, just that. He’s ...

The Gibson Johnny Smith that guitarist George Benson used to record his 1976 hit album Breezin’ (sales around three million) ...

BBC Sessions 1968-1970 (RANDB101) Once again, Nick Duckett’s RandB Records mines the rich vein of material from the BBC ...

Almost a quarter of a century ago – it seems like only yesterday – I enjoyed a conversation with Joe Zawinul after a ...

The Rhodes electric piano, reviled by many purists, but a key new sound in jazz from the late 1960s on, is the centre of ...

This two-CD set is a reissue of the original LP album, with most of CD2 containing 18 added  bonus tracks. For this ...

The Bronx-born singer who made her debut on UK label Whirlwind talks about her new album Portrait - the first she has been ...