What Next?  Musicians grounded in jazz have often looked further afield to expand their repertoire, moving towards non-Western patterns, cyclical rather than linear progressions and embracing a common ...

Present This is the eminent Swedish vocalist Nyberg’s 25th release. It follows her excellent collaboration with the Bohuslän ...

Four With more than 30 albums under his belt as leader and having established and directed the Scottish National Jazz ...

Approximately one year ago – 28 September 2025 but who’s counting – I attended, and reported on in these very pages, an event ...

Get Out And Get Under The Moon Widely acknowledged as the male vocalist of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra is still ...

Here Is Donato! Master trombonist Ray Keberle has studied at both the Manhattan School of Music, where he was mentored by ...

Microverse I Announcing their presence with the enjoyable 2020 debut Blodmånen Og Dig (“The Blood Moon And You”), Gorm Askjær ...

Duets The guitar-bass duo format entered the jazz mainstream through Jim Hall and Ron Carter’s Alone Together, a landmark ...

Rarely – if ever – has an American musician received such fulsome praise both during their lifetime and after their death. Such headlines as “Quincy Jones, Giant of American Music Dies At 91” (New ...

Songs Of The Japanese Supernatural Despite the fashion for Japanese horror films a few years ago, most Westerners have little ...

Swing Hop; Escape; Reality; The Sunday After; Rattletrap; Flash In Dreamland; Coravilas; Easilee; Undercover; La Di Da; Arms-akimbo; Aftermath; Undercover-Remix (74. ...

Barry Doyle Harris, a gifted and innovative pianist who early embraced and then mastered the complexities and spirit of bebop, died in hospital in North Bergen, New Jersey, from the effects of ...