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 ...

The Flame Beneath The Silence Trumpeter Adewumi comes with endorsements from the likes of pianist Jason Moran, a musician whose first album had the late Sam Rivers in the line-up. This Adewumi album ...

Sorts Of 3 Pianist Steve Lodder has been a respected figure in jazz for some time, closely linked to Andy Sheppard in earlier ...

Andvake The chart timings on this bustling album by the quintet of Oslo-based Italian guitarist Stefano Boggiani, with its two longest at the end, suggest a movement towards a double summation. And ...

Forty years ago, Victor Schonfield found here nothing to equal Marsh's I Remember You - 'one of the great jazz solos' - but still plenty of feeling, invention and rhythmic life ...

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

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

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