Trumpeter Guy Barker, well-known as in the vanguard of the first so-called British jazz revival of the 1980s, when he played ...

Monk’s third solo album (the first was Thelonious Alone and the second Thelonious Himself) came about because producer Orrin ...

If there actually are any contemporaries of mine out there, readers who recall the popular music landscape before rock got ...

When an album includes a selection of standards, it’s always interesting to see how they are handled and occasionally the old joke about playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right ...

Saxophonist, flautist, composer and sometime bass-player Pete Canter made his mark on the London jazz scene in the 1980s.

Jazz FM, the London-based radio station, this year resumes its jazz awards scheme, with categories including soul and blues acts of the year. Nick Pitts, Jazz FM content director, says of the awards, ...

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When pianist Rachael Z released the track Bodhisattva ahead of Sensual, her 13th solo album, one at first assumed it would be a jazzed-up cover of the 70s Steely Dan song. What streamed was a slick re ...

Pianist Sonny Clark, given the regularity with which he – in common with quite a few others – recorded for Blue Note either as a sideman or under their own name, might be described as the label’s ...

This album, subtitled “A Modern Concept Of The Ballad”, contains some of the most stimulating saxophone play­ing I have heard in a long time. Both Macero and Teddy Charles were con­sidered a few years ...

An interesting second album from an out­standing British group. I think that the best tracks for the whole band are This Is What Happens and Black Horse, both of which get into a really exciting ...

Singer and bassist Farnon led Dave Newton (p) and Phil Johnson (d) in a set including GAS classics and Stevie Wonder’s For Once In My Life Left to right: Dave Newton, Nicola Farnon, Phil Johnson at ...