August 2026, including Ron Carter & Yotam Silberstein, Deirdre Cartwright, Civil Disobedience, Josh Cohen and Eric Dolphy // ...
The Jazz Harpist The Jazz Harpist was Dorothy Ashby’s debut album. Widely regarded as one of her best it was recorded by Rudy ...
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert applauded guitarist Hunter's second album even as he pointed out the apparent debt to John ...
Amancio D’Silva is a virtuoso jazz gui­tarist of the late sixties and a pioneer of what some would call ‘Indo-Jazz’. For ...
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert found the work of the distinguished theorist and composer teetering under the weight of its pretensions ...
Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert heard swing, reggae, country & western and more adapted to the requirements of the sensitive ...
Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert said that while Out Of The Cool benefited in 1996 from the retro fad of the day (dominant in ...
Sailing Through I don’t get to hear all that much contemporary jazz from Italy, but what I have heard recently has given much ...
Fifty years ago, Barry McRae said Away had the right ingredients in the playing of Trevor Watts and the leader but they ...
Sixty years ago, Graham Boatfield said this then six-year-old session no longer matched its title. First published in Jazz ...
Thirty years ago, Herbie Hancock talked to Mark Gilbert about the arrangements on his New Standard album and the influences on his piano style, which included Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Horace Silver, ...
Ascension Never as popular as A Love Supreme, its much celebrated predecessor, Ascension was a real shock when first released. Not long before this session Coltrane was still recording songs like ...