Halfway To Mellowtown In a field where famous guitarists John Scofield, Bill Frisell and Julian Lage are praised for their ...

Sing Seven Seas Trombonist, composer and arranger Callum Au was born in London to Scottish and Chinese parents. He spent his ...

Charlie Parker and Red Rodney watch a band featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Margie Hyams and Chuck Wayne at the Downbeat, New York, ca. 1947. Photo by William P. Gottlieb Things started to go awry for ...

Built On Bach It is a truth universally acknowledged (well, quite widely recognised anyway) that there are connections (well, ...

After playing with such as Woody Herman, Chubby Jackson, Charlie Barnet, Red Norvo, Stan Kenton and Harry James in the jazz ...

Twining Tunes – is the debut of The Hytta Trio. The trio were formed in 2018, and explore Norwegian traditional music, ...

Ireland’s greatest writer meets her greatest jazz musician. Guitarist Louis Stewart’s suite, based on Joyce’s Ulysses, was ...

Cab’s exuberantly self-confident, hustling and astute personality drove him on an upwards spiral through the 1920s clubland world of Baltimore and Chicago as an extrovert singer, drummer and MC. By ...

This is the second Judith Owen live performance I’ve covered for Jazz Journal in slightly less than four months and I was, ...

American role models notwithstanding, 30 years ago Barry McRae heard the BSQ of Elton Dean, Paul Dunmall, Simon Picard and ...

Thanks to the kindness of JJ colleague John White, I was recently made aware of a new development in the affairs of Angelo Mastronardi’s excellent GleAM label from Italy. The 2025 double-CD release ...