“Oh, wait until you hear. You’ll hear,” an earnest Red Rodney told me on a lovely Pacific Northwest summer afternoon in July 1988. Rodney had been explaining that his music had moved beyond straight ...

A Love Supreme Revisited I’ve long admired the four-part suite that is A Love Supreme, cut in December 1964 by the John ...

Round About Midnight This quintet requires little in the way of introduction. It was the group that first brought John ...

Feebles, Fables & Ferns The ECM record label still surprises and delights, digging out – I assume from Fred Hersch’s archive ...

Fifty years ago, Dave Gelly noted that even Bobby Wellins' most casual ideas were placed with sly cunning in relation to the ...

Fifty years ago, Chris Sheridan reviewed a with-strings jazz album that, unusually, merited the expression 'great excitement' ...

Forty years ago, Simon Adams thought songbook standards too lightweight for Jarrett to shine and hoped for a record of Trane ...

Sixty years ago, Graham Boatfield acknowledged Fame's infiltration of jazz into pop but found this outing dull ...

To The Slaughter In his note for this one Soweto Kinch highlights how he considers the long-form suite that comprises this ...

Pat Metheny is one of those special artists who’s live concerts are highly anticipated events whenever he comes to the UK. He ...

Forty years ago, an unnamed reviewer (perhaps David Badham) was impressed by Fayyaz Virji and the 14-year-old Nigel Hitchcock ...

Thirty years ago, Mark Gilbert learned about modal jazz, French guitarist Christian Escoudé and how rhythm reading could be improved ...