Twining Tunes – is the debut of The Hytta Trio. The trio were formed in 2018, and explore Norwegian traditional music, ...

This is the second Judith Owen live performance I’ve covered for Jazz Journal in slightly less than four months and I was, ...

Ireland’s greatest writer meets her greatest jazz musician. Guitarist Louis Stewart’s suite, based on Joyce’s Ulysses, was ...

American role models notwithstanding, 30 years ago Barry McRae heard the BSQ of Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall, Simon Picard and ...

Turnpike There are many strands to the music of Vancouver-based guitarist and oud player Gordon Grdina, and while some of his projects lean more towards jazz, indie-rock, Arabic classical music or ...

Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert relished the landmark solo on Devil Take The Hindmost and the cut-glass heavy metal riffs but ...

Those readers who saw a BBC2 programme late last year will perhaps recall a bearded, slightly sombre-faced young man who performed prodigious exercises at the piano, mostly related to the works of ...

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, increasingly looks like a major rock and pop festival, with ...

The Swedish bassist and composer is best known for the folk-inspired Jazz På Svenska but his breadth of style belied the Nordic stereotype Long acknowledged as one of Sweden’s finest jazz musicians ...

Forty years ago, JJ covered two concerts - Loose Tubes and Courtney Pine - at the Camden Jazz Week, both reflecting the ...