The late reeds man Bill Ramsay told me this story about transplanted Pacific Northwest saxophonist Bert Wilson. Wilson sat in ...

With Strings Veteran pianist Mike Jones, based in Las Vegas, specialises in striking stride and swing interpretations of ...

The leading jazz name at the 2026 Battersea Park in Concert series this bank holiday will be the Ronnie Scott’s Orchestra.

The spoken introduction by renowned Canadian filmmaker Floria Sigismondi sets the scene nicely for the performance which ...

Feebles, Fables & Ferns The ECM record label still surprises and delights, digging out – I assume from Fred Hersch’s archive ...

“Oh, wait until you hear. You’ll hear,” an earnest Red Rodney told me on a lovely Pacific Northwest summer afternoon in July 1988. Rodney had been explaining that his music had moved beyond straight ...

Round About Midnight This quintet requires little in the way of introduction. It was the group that first brought John ...

The biggest audience of the festival mustered for one of the only three performances in 1986 by the Charlie Watts Big Band. Thirty-piece swing bands are a rarity (and ones with three drummers even ...

A Love Supreme Revisited I’ve long admired the four-part suite that is A Love Supreme, cut in December 1964 by the John ...

Forty years ago, Simon Adams thought songbook standards too lightweight for Jarrett to shine and hoped for a record of Trane ...

The 2025 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, has evolved over the last 20 years from its original format of celebrating the music culture of New Orleans and Louisiana to what ...

Count Up; Straight Ahead; Outness; I Can’t Make You Love Me; Sheer Lunacy; O.D.; Inner Urge; Elvinesque; Carnaval; Bells (62.29) Finnerty (elg); David Kikoski (p ...