The 2025 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 55th year, has evolved over the last 20 years from its original format of celebrating the music culture of New Orleans and Louisiana to what ...

Jackie Gleason, not a name familiar to most jazz followers, was in his day a famous TV host, comedian, actor and entertainer. Between 1953 and 1960 he produced a series of top-selling albums of gentle ...

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

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

Forty years ago, David Badham was gripped by the sheer power of Charlie Watts' three-drummer, 30-piece big band ...

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

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

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

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

Plays For Beautiful People The harp is a niche instrument in jazz and seems fiendishly difficult to play, especially when ...

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

Universal Truth Pianist Emmet Cohen now has now made a number of albums under his own name – this being the fourth for the ...