There’s a scene in a recent Led Zeppelin documentary in which the band’s powerhouse drummer, John Bonham, discusses how ...

Fifty years ago, seeing Steve Beresford, Terry Day, Peter Cusack, John Russell et al in concert, Peter Riley gave a rather ...

Mark Gardner heard in trumpeter Byrd's incorporation of funk and rock not the pursuit of a contemporary jazz promised by the ...

Four very different vocalists feature in this set of reviews, the first being Savina Yannatou, from Greece. She shares ...

The scene – the Vienna Festival of 1964, hitherto regarded as an impenetrable haven of classical music and arts. The music – ...

Mark Gardner was relieved to find no poetry in Garrick's latest excursion but still was troubled by Coleridge Goode's bowing and humming and Shake Keane and Joe Harriot's free forming ...

As the original drummer in Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and a founder member of smooth-jazz specialists Fourplay, Harvey ...

This is the Courvoisier/Halvorson duo’s third collaboration on record, and as with the Jon Irabagon release discussed below ...

Now in its fifth edition, the 2025 Sicilia Jazz Festival (22 June – 6 July) offers 85 concerts and involves 385 musicians, ...

Musicians from across Germany and around the globe flocked to Cologne for the German Jazz Prize on 13 June – and that’s no ...

In 2023, Swedish bassist and composer Vilhelm Bromander released his new big band’s debut album. That ensemble now takes its ...

It all started in 1969 when musician and radio producer Elias Gistelinck dared to create a jazz festival at a time when pop ...