Some might feel a musical duo offers a third of the entertainment provided by a sextet or an eighth of that available in a 16 ...

Lasting Impression Brandon Sanders spent many hours as a child visiting his grandmother’s jazz club in Kansas City where she ...

It’s now several moons since I’ve been able to beguile a Sunday lunchtime basking in the sounds of jazz at its best. This of course is not the same as saying I have not spent several Sunday lunchtimes ...

Afro Baroque As in my last batch of selections, eclecticism is a keyword with these albums. Afro Baroque is one of those ...

It’s All In Your Head One of the unintended consequences of the rise of jazz education is that as technical proficiency has ...

Stargazer Japanese labels have produced countless records that have reached only the most fanatical jazz fans in the rest of the world. Sunnyside has rescued a typical example from obscurity: pianist ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert found Shorter's post Weather Report fusion one-dimensional in comparison with the musical ...

More Than You Know After recording A Swinging Affair for Blue Note in August 1962, Dexter Gordon took off for a successful two-week season at Ronnie Scott’s club in London. He then moved to Copenhagen ...