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

Altoist and multi-instrumentalist Jimmie Lunceford drilled his band throughout the 30s in a gruelling nationwide schedule of touring shows and one-night stands, with a perfectionist’s zeal for the ...

Suddenly, a resurgence of interest in big bands is in the air. Always been around, but locally, from the London Improvisers ...

The relationship, partnership and friendship of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn has been well documented. Meeting in 1938 ...

Recorded three months before his mysterious death in 1988, this handsomely packaged double album finds Chet Baker creating ...

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

This is the follow up to Latham’s 2016 collection of 11 rock pieces that were given the jazz-fusion treatment. This time ...

Bergen-based saxophonist and composer Inge Weatherhead Breistein first came to my attention through his collaborations with ...

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

Following the publication of the UK government’s Copyright and AI: Consultation, trumpeter Chris Hodgkins is urging ...

Derek Ansell heard Zawinul struggle to make the classical-jazz fusion work but his feet moved to the 60s soul-jazz reprises ...

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 ...