Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert read a book that was a corrective to the sage view of the 80s and 90s that jazz had lost its ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert welcomed TT's latest, not least for its reminders of the melodic clarity of the mid-80s Spears ...

The genesis of this book provides a striking beginning to author Steven Bowie’s introduction. Way back in 2010 he dreamed he was standing by a bookstand and beside him was Cootie Williams, leafing ...

Thirty years ago Derek Ansell welcomed a good straightahead piano trio but wondered why they used an old fag-stained pub joanna to record their new album ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert heard John Scofield in Hunter's Blue Note debut but also individuality in his orchestral eight-string technique and his jazzing of Nirvana ...