Forty years ago vibist Mike Mainieri talked about Paul Whiteman, Buddy Rich, farming, the hippie era, the history of Steps ...

Simon Adams heard the Celestial Traveller reverting mostly to the 30s heyday of swing and issuing a 12" single aimed at the ...

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

Graham Boatfield thought that efforts in London to marry jazz and poetry were a failure and recommended instead Langston ...

Sinclair Traill was delighted by the pungent phrasing, ferocious beat and direct, unpretentious creativity of Dexter Gordon, ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago Chris Sheridan thought rock - 'the illegitimate heir to urban blues' - a blundering intruder into jazz and ...

Fifty years ago Roger Dean was pleased to find no rock on Jarrett's latest LP but nevertheless variety within a consistent ...

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 ...

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