Three generations of jazz collide in a standing-room-only Prom for a live recording of BBC Radio 3’s Round Midnight,, where ...

Stuart Nicholson examines how Trane moved from a form of lightning-fast, near quantum harmonic theory, to spiritual modal ...

Ralph Alessi (t), Joseph Alessi (tb), Matt Mitchell (p), John Hebert (b) and Ches Smith (d). Rec. 2024. "American trumpeter Ralph Alessi has been a consistently impressive artist since the 1990s, when ...

In a career that burned twice as bright but only half as long, John Coltrane made just one excursion to the British Isles, in 1961. Brian Priestley offers ...

Larry Stabbins has long combined the commercial success of his bands Weekend and Working Week and jousting with the likes of Keith Tippett and Peter Brötzmann. Tony Benjamin tells the extraordinary ...

Short-scale basses are emphatically back in favour among bassists of all persuasions – not least thanks to the enduring popularity of the Fender Mustang, or the now much sought-after custom-made ...

The issue also includes interviews with Hedvig Mollestad, Gary Bartz, Cindy Blackman Santana, David Ambrosio and Kris Davis ...

With John Coltrane’s recorded legacy once more in the spotlight, Selwyn Harris highlights the many opportunities to hear Trane’s works performed live in ...

This month Val Wilmer retraces her footsteps to Broadway’s forgotten music hub, where the scent of newly-pressed vinyl, pipe smoke and bourbon still linger ...

Trumpeter Audrey Powne has made the leap from her native Australia to New York and now London, and is making plenty of waves along the way as both ...

The silhouette of the Fender Stratocaster is one of the most recognisable in modern music. There have been countless copies over the years, but as you can imagine, we wouldn’t normally have considered ...