Just as Nigel Jarrett laments the dilution – even hijacking – of the word “jazz” by festivals featuring pop and increasingly ...

April 2025, including Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, Harvey Mason, Bennie Maupin, Pat Metheny and Hedvig Mollestad || ...

It’s absolutely clear where this quartet’s heart lies from one look at the material and its composers. As well as Golson’s ...

April 2025, including Goran Kajfeš, Matthew Kilner, Lagon Nwar, Germana La Sorsa, Ingrid Laubrock and Joe Lovano // Editor's ...

Michael Doyle’s title is striking but also misleading. Ostensibly about the adventures (and misadventures) of Artie Shaw’s ...

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Joanna Eden, Bill Frisell, Sakoto Fujii, Macy Gray, ...

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Cyrus Chestnut, Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, Sylvie ...

I’m not interested in the new for the sake of newness” writes Jeremy Pelt in the liner notes for Woven. It is an interesting ...

Records offered for review to Jazz Journal in March-April 2025, including Phil Haynes, Arve Henriksen, Freddie Hubbard, Jon ...

This year's festival, blessed with sunshine, included Katia Melua, Lulu, Kokoroko, Lisa Stansfield, Billy Cobham, Daniel ...

Brian Kane, the author of this book, is a Yale academic and an experienced jazz musician. And that may explain why some of ...

A few days ahead of International Jazz Day 2025 (30 April), the Hanseatic city of Bremen was once again, for a few days, an ...