French pianist Martial Solal, famous for scoring the music for Jean-Luc Godard’s film À Bout De Souffle, died 12 December, ...

Kate Kortum’s band is rattling the wood-panelled walls of this L-shaped venue – but the singer is nowhere to be seen. Her ...

London saxophonist and flautist Sean Khan has been much acclaimed for albums such as Palmares Fantasy, a 2018 collaboration ...

Bassist and composer Ursula Harrison, winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024, didn’t have to cast widely for an influential ...

The Joel Frahm Trio, consisting of tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm, bassist Dan Loomis and drummer Ernesto Cervini has existed ...

The gestation of Chris Sansom’s magnum opus suffered a 50-year hiatus. Sansom composed his four-part suite for nonet – ...

Three albums this month that show the sheer diversity of music that comes under the jazz umbrella. Seriously finds three ...

All but two of the charts on Doo’s Blues, the Dusko Goykovich album I review below, are by the Serbian trumpeter himself, ...

This 11-CD set is a collection of 1943-1949 swing-era and early bop recordings originally made exclusively for the US armed ...

Steve Gadd witnessed and sat in with legendary organist Jack McDuff at an early age, so it’s been satisfying in recent years to see the now 79-year-old drummer gravitating back towards his early love ...

Without working for such an end I seem to have reached a point where that marketing puff (more commonly known as hype) is no longer attached to the music I review. The happy result of this is that the ...

It’s a toss-up whether I should subtitle this piece “I Really Should Get Out More”, or “Let’s Hear It For Serendipity”. Every month or so the editor sends out a list of new releases and invites us to ...