Indelible as it may be, the Louisiana delta doesn’t have a monopoly on a tradition of musical cross-breeding. South Florida ...

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.

If you were to listen to these three contrasting albums back-to-back you’d soon realise that the commonly voiced stereotypes about Scandinavian jazz are deeply flawed. Illustrating the great breadth ...

One of those piano prodigies who started at three, Japanese-born Michika Fukumori has had music in her life from the start. Since moving to New York in 2000, she has honed her artistic skills and ...

Yet again I find myself pleasantly surprised, albeit with minor reservations, by a new release reminiscent of old-style – i.e. pre-1960 – middle-of-the-road, jazz-inflected pop which may still be ...

A refined sense of understatement defines this set throughout, the three-way communication and interplay of the trio consistently delivered in exquisite fashion. The trio might stretch out a bit on ...

iG4 at the Watermill, June 2025. Clockwise from top left: Claire Martin, Nikki Iles, Karen Sharp and Ewan Hastie. Photos © Brian O'Connor There was a full house for ...

There’s a scene in a recent Led Zeppelin documentary in which the band’s powerhouse drummer, John Bonham, discusses how important an influence Gene Krupa was on his approach to playing drums.