Peter Tanner felt short-changed by Brubeck's pretentious, jazz-free exoticism, finding the cover painting and the Japanese ...

Sixty years ago, Steve Voce, having found Coltrane's long workouts too harrowing, wasn't surprised to see Crescent panned by ...

Milky smoke from an incense stick is pirouetting around a dozen porcelain cats and one bowl of dry-roasted peanuts. Alto ...

Soul singer Smokey Robinson is currently top of the billing for what’s officially titled the “Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2025 ...

Jazz FM gets some celebrity glitter on Christmas Day when Strictly Come Dancing star Anton du Beke joins the presenting team, ...

Play On! is a new musical, touring the UK since September and finishing end of February, that features Ashton Moore as ...

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

The 51st International Jazz Pianists Festival in Kalisz, Poland came to an end on 24 Nov. Just as for last year’s jubilee ...

The tabla player Zakir Hussain died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco on 16 December at the age of 73. The ...

Pianist Sonny Clark, given the regularity with which he – in common with quite a few others – recorded for Blue Note either ...

The bassist winner of the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024 award is steeped in jazz academia, but, a slight variation, her degree ...

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