Forty years ago, Victor Schonfield found here nothing to equal Marsh's I Remember You - 'one of the great jazz solos' - but ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert observed that while the Norwegian guitarist's enjoyable rock-outs were novel for ECM, they were ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert found more of Tristano's bop alternativism in sidemen Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz than in the ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert looked for the essence of Shorter's individual style by contrasting a 1959 and 1966 album ...

Live At Winter’s Jazz Club And Andy’s Jazz Club Though some live albums can be a bit messy, Marques Carroll’s leadership ...

Back And Forth Three reflective, thoughtful albums with European and Scandinavian influences feature in this month’s digest.

I Thought About You This is a reissue of a 1996 album by singer (and actress) Christy Baron (b. 1963, Munhall, Penn) that mixes songbook and jazz standards with covers of the Beatles, Stevie Wonder ...

Pennies From Heaven Trumpeter Chris Hodgkins is a familiar figure on the UK jazz scene, his style based on Chicago Dixieland ...

Retrospective This is a follow-up to Carl Clements’ critically acclaimed 2023 CD A Different Light (Greydisc GDR3581).

It took a while – six years almost to the day – for Simon Spillett’s Big Band to make it from the humble setting of ...

I didn’t think anyone listened to tenorist Warne Marsh these days, but Wellins evidently does. In fact when listening to the plaintive McTaggart, more or less a slowed-down version of Charlie Parker’s ...

Sixty years ago Sinclair Traill found the African-influenced music of US trio Quartette Très Bien had such abandon that he couldn't believe it was all arranged ...