Jazz FM, the London-based radio station, has reinstated its jazz awards scheme for 2025, with categories including soul and blues acts of the year. Nick Pitts, Jazz FM content director, says of the ...

Live At Slugs (Blue Note) On tour after his departure from John Coltrane’s classic quartet at the end of 1965, McCoy Tyner ...

In a previous column I reviewed a couple of albums by Satoko Fujii, commented on the astonishing statistics of her output (over 100 albums as leader in 29 years, plus her work as a member of various ...

This group recorded its first album back in 2021 which received a positive response from the Italian critics, leading to personal accolades for leader Daniele Nasi, a saxophonist whose creative ...

The Grammy awards have been accused of under-representing women in nominations and awards and facilitating a female-positive ...

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post ...

Schubert Now! (BMC Records, BMC CD3298) Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain ...

Various: Scarborough Jazz Festival 2024 This double CD was recorded at last year’s Scarborough Jazz Festival. CD1 runs to ...

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

Sporting a green trumpet à la Miles, Paul Higgs started his set with Milestones (the streamlined modal tune from 1958) and ...

Andy Hamilton advises of a funding campaign to replace the historic saxophone stolen from Archbishop King of San Francisco on ...

The full lineup for the 2025 Cheltenham Jazz Festival (30 April-5 May) has been announced as follows below. Aside from the ...