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.

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.

Four very different vocalists feature in this set of reviews, the first being Savina Yannatou, from Greece. She shares honours on Watersong with Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui and the Primavera en ...

They say : Recorded in Montevideo, mixed in LA and inspired by journeys through Uruguay, Joanna Eden’s seventh studio album The Road To Paysandú reflects on new horizons, perspectives and life rhythms ...

This Danish release follows hot on the heels of last year’s issue on Timeless of the fourth album in the Eastern Rebellion series (reviewed in JJI, November 1984). Third Set was actually re­corded six ...

There is relatively little improv­isation on this LP, but instead many delightful timbres. Rooyen has a fair solo on Ritz, and Bruninghaus solos extremely well on Chloe. But Giger’s sensitive drum ...

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 ...