Trumpeter turned arranger Quincy Jones – best known to the general public as the producer of hit Michael Jackson albums after ...
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2024. Clockwise from top left: Herbie Hancock, Audrey Powne, Nubya Garcia, Marcus ...
R&B, blues, folk, rock and popular – and also some original material. To all the songs on this album Wilson brings a highly ...
Gail Thompson has assembled a very useful big band and together with Andy Macintosh provided some good tunes for it to play.
Among Allan Holdsworth’s references are jobs with Tony Williams’ Lifetime, Soft Machine, Bill Bruford and John Stevens. In ...
Sixty years ago Mark Gardner welcomed Mobley's new album as a hard-driving mainstream-modern antidote to the new wave. Odd ...
This LP is a setting of words from ‘How It Is’ (1964) by Samuel Beckett, interspersed with instrumental passages. Extensive ...
There’s a rumour going around that the life of a music reviewer is only a tad less rewarding than that of Tom Cruise, Andrew ...
Superlatives are notorious in jazz criticism, but Molde really is a very special event in the jazz calendar. What musicians and fans alike appreciate about Molde is that it has always stayed faithful ...
This is a thoroughly comprehensive, complete biography of Dolphy’s life and music. After an informative foreword by Jeff Schwartz and an introduction by the author, the first chapter gives a brief ...
Yet another jazz dynasty may be upon us as Bill Evans’ grandson releases a recital of Evans compositions. Evans On Evans ...
As intrepid festival director Antanas Gustys explains in the programme, this is the 37th Vilnius Jazz Festival – and ...