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 ...

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' ...

It seems obligatory for all Verve recording artists to be given the ‘full orchestra’ treatment sooner or later. In the cases of Stan Getz, Kenny Burrell and Bill Evans this expensive policy paid ...

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 ...

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

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