I first met Gale Madden at a record shop in Bellingham, Washington in the late 80s. As we stood digging a CD of vintage Roy ...

I had the pleasure of seeing New-York-based drummer and composer Allison Miller seven years ago when she was playing Newport ...

This was originally released in 1958 via Prestige and recorded three days after a Columbia session for the Miles Davis album ...

Born in Paris and raised in Scotland, Rebecca Vasmant has become an unofficial ambassador for contemporary jazz. Drawing ...

Pianist-composer Jim Doherty’s octet album was recorded in 1986 with close friends Louis Stewart (guitar) and Bobby Shew ...

This is Noah Peterson’s seventh album as a leader, which, as usual has been released on his own Peterson Entertainment label.

My knowledge of the Latvian jazz scene is lamentably sparse but it was, arguably, broadened by the information sheet inside ...

Barry McRae was tempted to say that the real stars of another ECM session were the engineers, so good was the sound quality ...

Sinclair Traill relished the undiluted pleasure produced by the harmonisations and exchanges of cornetist Ruby Braff and ...

Mark Gilbert reviewed a relatively routine but effective set of hard bop featuring Bob Berg, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins ...

Derek Ansell reviewed the tenorist in a well-planned and expressive straightahead session with Tom Harrell, Willy Pickens, ...