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

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

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

Jazz And Bossa Nova Lalo Schifrin (1932–2025) composed some of the most memorable film and television music of our age. A ...

Forty years ago Michael Tucker heard the 'perfect rebuttal of a recent, patronising description of ECM as "the Habitat ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert hailed one of the key modern jazz guitar records, a singular session replete with chromatic ...

Forty years ago Simon Adams found that Ra's leopard-skin frock didn't disguise the sloppiness of his musical presentation ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert heard in Henderson's splitting, jiving and slipping of notes a still contemporary saxophone ...

Thirty years ago the NY tenor man, peer to Berg, Brecker, Mintzer et al, talked about his journey through Miles Davis, Elvin ...

Forty years ago Mark Gilbert saw guitarist Rypdal's trio confirm that it was now OK for the jazz fan to listen to heavy metal ...