When I interviewed guitarist Steve Khan in 2011 (the interview published in Jazz Journal in September and October 2018), I asked him about Anthony... The 22nd Scarborough Jazz Festival takes place ...

A crisp, swinging, well-executed programme of mainstream/modern, ‘Cleopatra’s Needle’ is a splendid advertisement for British jazz. Ronnie Ross plays some of the most inventive baritone sax I have ...

Benjamin's first two albums were in the soul-funk realm, her third a Coltrane tribute in the modal sphere. She sees Phoenix blending the two In the event it is essentially about loss, grieving, and ...

Not a new musical sub-genre, but an Arts Council funded organisation in north London, Queer Jazz aims to promote LGBTQIA+ jazz performers Claiming that “most jazz fans would struggle to name more than ...

A refined sense of understatement defines this set throughout, the three-way communication and interplay of the trio consistently delivered in exquisite fashion. The trio might stretch out a bit on ...

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Val Wilmer with her shots of Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin in the background Blue Moments, Black Sounds – A Retrospective has just opened at the Worldly, Wicked & Wise Gallery in north London, ...

Café Royal Books is an independent publisher of a wide range of documentary photography, the emphasis on social and cultural aspects of life. Each of its books stands on its own, giving a glimpse into ...

The last thing the jazz world needs now is another book about Kind Of Blue. Or indeed any more articles and reviews about it, either. Ashley Kahn wrote the definitive book about the making of Miles ...

Sam Coombes: Time Of Life (33Jazz Records) | Anouar Brahem: After The Last Sky (ECM 2838) | Mark Turner: We Raise Them To Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music LLM023) | AuB: Folk Devils (Whirlwind ...

A two-tenor escapade that, unusually, pits husband against wife. Not that there is much to be classed as a battle, any more than was the case with a recent foray by Dave O’Higgins alongside Italian ...

This Franco-Japanese quartet has been together for quite a while and its members have also worked together in various off-shoots but this is the first recording they have made which is totally freely ...