Trumpeter Guy Barker, well-known as in the vanguard of the first so-called British jazz revival of the 1980s, when he played ...

Monk’s third solo album (the first was Thelonious Alone and the second Thelonious Himself) came about because producer Orrin ...

If there actually are any contemporaries of mine out there, readers who recall the popular music landscape before rock got ...

When an album includes a selection of standards, it’s always interesting to see how they are handled and occasionally the old joke about playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right ...

Saxophonist, flautist, composer and sometime bass-player Pete Canter made his mark on the London jazz scene in the 1980s.

If you are looking for musicians to celebrate a bassist as unmistakable and influential as Ray Brown this trio surely sits ...

One of the most talented but paradoxically less famous guitarists, Danny Gatton was a true phenomenon. When other guitarists heard him, they described him as “The Humbler” – which was also the title ...

iG4 at the Watermill, June 2025. Clockwise from top left: Claire Martin, Nikki Iles, Karen Sharp and Ewan Hastie. Photos © Brian O'Connor There was a full house for ...

The group started with a swinging minor-key tune, Big Bertha by Duke Pearson. Vincent Herring took the first solo, employing a powerful attack and hard-driving lines. Catalan guitarist Joan Fort ...

“I’m not interested in the new for the sake of newness” writes Jeremy Pelt in the liner notes for Woven. It is an interesting observation to make, because although Pelt puts his own stamp on his music ...

They say : Recorded in Montevideo, mixed in LA and inspired by journeys through Uruguay, Joanna Eden’s seventh studio album The Road To Paysandú reflects on new horizons, perspectives and life rhythms ...

Conspicuously absent from the reference books, the intriguingly named trumpeter and cornetist Webster Young (1932-2003), was born in South Carolina and raised by his mother in Washington, D.C. His ...