This year's festival, blessed with sunshine, included Katia Melua, Lulu, Kokoroko, Lisa Stansfield, Billy Cobham, Daniel ...

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Joanna Eden, Bill Frisell, Sakoto Fujii, Macy Gray, ...

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Andy Shepherd, Michael Arbenz, Norma Winstone, Joe ...

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Cyrus Chestnut, Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, Sylvie ...

Trumpeter and singer Muoneké has become a favourite at this venue in Taunton’s Paul Street: as ever he charmed the audience ...

Brian Kane, the author of this book, is a Yale academic and an experienced jazz musician. And that may explain why some of the book was of no interest to me and some was very interesting indeed. The ...

Nature and environmental beauty inspired this third Blue Note release from all-female quintet Artemis. The title means “tree-like”. The album features eight five-minute tracks, with one written by ...

There’s no listing for Carlos Santana in my copy of Jazz: The Rough Guide, nor any mention by contributor Ian Carr of Santana’s collaboration with fellow guitarist John McLaughlin on the (would-be) ...

This month’s arrivals on my doorstep included two drum-led releases. Previously issued on Mainstream (MDCD715), Roy Haynes’ Hip Ensemble is a direct and straightforward piece of modern 70s funk-tinged ...