This is the 21st album by “smooth jazz artist” tenor and soprano saxophonist Richard Elliott, born in Scotland but raised in ...

Renowed trombonist Fedchock’s live recording of his tribute to J.J. Johnson’s centennial, using Johnson’s original charts, ...

Koo Nimo, a leading 93-year-old highlife musician and apparently the first Ghanaian to release an album of his own music, ...

Economics precipitated the end of the big-band era at least 10 years before Terry Gibbs formed his Dream Band. By the mid-50s ...

Celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new album, new line-up and a documentary film created by BAFTA and Emmy award ...

Harken! is the fourth album from Threeway, the drumless jazz trio comprising Steve Waterman (t, flh), Steve Lodder (p, org) ...

Mark Gilbert hailed McLaughlin's adoption of unequivocal, straightahead jazz, albeit with vibrato bar, in a new trio with ...

Mark Gilbert welcomed the landmark session in which John Scofield applied his polytonal jazz attitude to a range of popular ...

Immediately the music of London-based group Boom Yer reminds of those late 90s bands Jamiroquai and The Brand New Heavies so ...

Tin Pan Alley/American Songbook is as far removed from contemporary cinema as Mickey Mouse from Hannibal Lector. In the 1920s-50s, this rich source of songs and the big screen were Siamese twins. It’s ...

Fifty years ago, in a belated review, Mark Gardner marvelled at the swing and invention on Hubbard's 1969 date with Eddie ...

Mike Shera was mystified that a session distinguished by the 'constant swing and excellent ideas' of Tommy Whittle should ...