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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Turnpike There are many strands to the music of Vancouver-based guitarist and oud player Gordon Grdina, and while some of his projects lean more towards jazz, indie-rock, Arabic classical music or ...

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

Forty years ago, Mark Gilbert relished the landmark solo on Devil Take The Hindmost and the cut-glass heavy metal riffs but ...