Mark Gardner hailed the quality, authenticity, musicianship and creativity of jazz from a country - Poland - in which, only ...

Mike Shera noted that while Judgement was a more complete dedication to 'the new thing', it didn't represent a severance of ...

Sinclair Traill was very impressed by the blues and ballad singing of the man who had topped the pop charts in 1961-2 with ...

Claiming that “most jazz fans would struggle to name more than a few queer jazz musicians throughout the entire genre’s ...

Hannah Horton grew up in rural Essex and was introduced to clarinet and saxophone by an inspiring music teacher. She did the ...

At some point in the evening, singer Andy Caine said “No politics, please” but the significance of watching a tribute to ...

Jazzahead, the trade fair held each spring in Bremen, Germany, says it has “always had the mission to track down and to help ...

Martin Speake, the renowned British saxophonist at the centre of a racism row at Trinity Laban conservatory in south London, ...

An author bold enough to decide on the most significant individuals and happenings in his zone of interest and write a book ...

Among the notable events at Ronnie Scott’s January to March are Eliane Elias, Marius Neset, Dave Douglas, Billy Harper, John ...

In 1971 Sun Ra was appointed lecturer in the newly created Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. His course was entitled The Black Man In The Cosmos, its ...

Having wrapped up last year’s programme with a thoroughly enjoyable evening of Christmas-flecked material, courtesy of the ...