Celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new album, new line-up and a documentary film created by BAFTA and Emmy award ...

Tin Pan Alley/American Songbook is as far removed from contemporary cinema as Mickey Mouse from Hannibal Lector. In the 1920s-50s, this rich source of songs and the big screen were Siamese twins. It’s ...

Immediately the music of London-based group Boom Yer reminds of those late 90s bands Jamiroquai and The Brand New Heavies so ...

Harken! is the fourth album from Threeway, the drumless jazz trio comprising Steve Waterman (t, flh), Steve Lodder (p, org) ...

David Badham welcomed the soulful Caribbean warmth and the percussion-lite Latin vibe of the second album from the ...

Since its inception seven years ago, the Hidden Jazz Club has grown in influence and reputation with one key distinguishing ...

Simon Adams heard the Celestial Traveller reverting mostly to the 30s heyday of swing and issuing a 12" single aimed at the ...

Forty years ago vibist Mike Mainieri talked about Paul Whiteman, Buddy Rich, farming, the hippie era, the history of Steps ...

Mark Gilbert welcomed the landmark session in which John Scofield applied his polytonal jazz attitude to a range of popular ...

Mark Gilbert sensed a lot of style and not much content in the second album from Ornette Coleman's Prime Time bassist ...

Thirty years ago Mark Gilbert hailed McLaughlin's adoption of unequivocal, straightahead jazz, albeit with vibrato bar, in a ...

Graham Boatfield thought that efforts in London to marry jazz and poetry were a failure and recommended instead Langston ...