Having wrapped up last year’s programme with a thoroughly enjoyable evening of Christmas-flecked material, courtesy of the ...

Martin Speake, the venerated British saxophonist at the centre of a racism row at Trinity Laban conservatory in south London, has told Talk TV that he has resigned from the college after 22 years and ...

An author bold enough to decide on the most significant individuals and happenings in his zone of interest and write a book ...

In 1971 Sun Ra was appointed lecturer in the newly created Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of ...

Satoko Fujii – pianist, composer, leader of several bands and winner of several awards around the world, dubbed “The ...

Hot on the heels of his trombonist brother Roland’s impressive playing on John Alvey’s recent Loft Glow comes this Jazz Music ...

Recorded in Dublin in July 1985, this session was first released the following year. Livia’s remastered reissue contains a 16 ...

Drummer Zach Adleman is a musician whose track record includes performances in the company of many music heavyweights and he ...

Koo Nimo, a leading 93-year-old highlife musician and apparently the first Ghanaian to release an album of his own music, introduces this fine album with a brief retrospective on how highlife ...

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in November-December 2024, including John Fedchock, Elliot Galvin, Roy Hargrove, Donald Harrison Jr., Andrew Hill, Sigurd Hole, Dave Holland & Lionel Loueke ...

Economics precipitated the end of the big-band era at least 10 years before Terry Gibbs formed his Dream Band. By the mid-50s, for instance, Count Basie’s 16-piece band was being paid the same amount ...