Nature and environmental beauty inspired this third Blue Note release from all-female quintet Artemis. The title means ...

This month’s arrivals on my doorstep included two drum-led releases. Previously issued on Mainstream (MDCD715), Roy Haynes’ ...

There’s no listing for Carlos Santana in my copy of Jazz: The Rough Guide, nor any mention by contributor Ian Carr of Santana’s collaboration with fellow guitarist John McLaughlin on the (would-be) ...

Having over the years recorded with Art Pepper, and among other things put out a number of albums under his own name on both ...

There has been a lot of excitement over the arrival yesterday in Denmark of one Miles Davis’s paintings. It is a painting ...

Saxophonist Sam Coombes returns with his fifth album, a quartet set recorded in Paris in July 2024. It marks his return to ...

The author says he was born in Toronto in 1941 and is the retired president of an entertainment agency who spent 27 years ...

The organ trio, like big bands, probably never completely went away. It’s an observation worth making perhaps, given what ...

Most of the records made by Latvian company Jersika, the jazz and improvised-music label founded by Mareks Ameriks in 2017, are made completely analogue and eventually cut directly to lacquer. But ...

Jim Mullen, one of the UK’s pre-eminent jazz guitarists, has teamed up with two Danish musicians Jan Harbeck (tenor) and ...

One friendly patron jabs a finger at evidence of this street-level club’s raunchy past – red lightbulbs, wall-length mirrors and glittery golden frills hung around the ceiling. Legend has it King ...