The full lineup for the 2025 Cheltenham Jazz Festival (30 April-5 May) has been announced as follows below. Aside from the ...

Various: Scarborough Jazz Festival 2024 This double CD was recorded at last year’s Scarborough Jazz Festival. CD1 runs to ...

Schubert Now! (BMC Records, BMC CD3298) Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain ...

The Grammy awards have been accused of under-representing women in nominations and awards and facilitating a female-positive ...

Live At Slugs (Blue Note) On tour after his departure from John Coltrane’s classic quartet at the end of 1965, McCoy Tyner ...

Altoist and multi-instrumentalist Jimmie Lunceford drilled his band throughout the 30s in a gruelling nationwide schedule of ...

Guitarist Lionel Loueke hails from Benin, West Africa and his roots are instantly evident here. His playing sounds ...

Suddenly, a resurgence of interest in big bands is in the air. Always been around, but locally, from the London Improvisers ...

Derek Ansell heard Zawinul struggle to make the classical-jazz fusion work but his feet moved to the 60s soul-jazz reprises ...

This haunting album, reissued in ECM’s Luminescence vinyl series, features intense improvising and memorable compositions. As ...

Jazz educator and bassist Gary Crosby is to lead a jazz jam at London’s Jazz Café 2 February to mark his 70th birthday (26).

Andy Hamilton advises of a funding campaign to replace the historic saxophone stolen from Archbishop King of San Francisco on his doorstep a month ago. The campaign’s GoFundPage page says: “Four weeks ...