By 1972, Bley had already released 18 records as a leader, but predominantly in larger contexts or trios and nothing close to ...

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

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

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 – ...

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

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 ...

Weighing in at around 25 minutes, this record is technically an EP, however, the quality of the music presented on these six tracks is superb. Vocalist Germana Stella La Sorsa hails from Italy and ...

A 300-word review doesn’t really afford room for the coverage this album deserves, so closing it with a discussion of Halvorson’s Float Queens doesn’t by any means imply disdain for Courvoisier’s ...

Musicians from across Germany and around the globe flocked to Cologne for the German Jazz Prize on 13 June – and that’s no surprise. All 76 nominees got €4,000, while winners in 22 categories departed ...