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 ...