Organik Neither organist Pete Whittaker nor percussionist Gary Hammond, being custodians of the heavy armoury in guitarist Deirdre Cartwright’s trio, lifts the lid on what in the wrong hands can be ...

What Next?  Musicians grounded in jazz have often looked further afield to expand their repertoire, moving towards non-Western patterns, cyclical rather than linear progressions and embracing a common ...

Present This is the eminent Swedish vocalist Nyberg’s 25th release. It follows her excellent collaboration with the Bohuslän ...

Get Out And Get Under The Moon Widely acknowledged as the male vocalist of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra is still ...

Approximately one year ago – 28 September 2025 but who’s counting – I attended, and reported on in these very pages, an event ...

Duets The guitar-bass duo format entered the jazz mainstream through Jim Hall and Ron Carter’s Alone Together, a landmark ...

Four With more than 30 albums under his belt as leader and having established and directed the Scottish National Jazz ...

Here Is Donato! Master trombonist Ray Keberle has studied at both the Manhattan School of Music, where he was mentored by ...

Microverse I Announcing their presence with the enjoyable 2020 debut Blodmånen Og Dig (“The Blood Moon And You”), Gorm Askjær ...

Songs Of The Japanese Supernatural Despite the fashion for Japanese horror films a few years ago, most Westerners have little ...

The 23rd Scarborough Jazz Festival offered a range of effective jazz performances from such as Shirley Smart, Benet McLean, Dark Side Of The Big Band, Soft Machine, Alina Bzhezhinska and the 3D Jazz ...

Unfortunately I only caught about 10 minutes of Robert Glasper’s set because his group came on nearly an hour after schedule and I had a train to catch, but in that time we saw some very skilled ...