Stan, I’d love to write a piece for you, but you really don’t know me very well or the kind of thing I do, and I think your whole approach is wrong’ ‘You were saying you didn’t dig Stan Kenton – well ...

As the original drummer in Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and a founder member of smooth-jazz specialists Fourplay, Harvey ...

This is the Courvoisier/Halvorson duo’s third collaboration on record, and as with the Jon Irabagon release discussed below this means I’ve got some catching up to do. It’s clear from the off that the ...

It all started in 1969 when musician and radio producer Elias Gistelinck dared to create a jazz festival at a time when pop ...

Musicians from across Germany and around the globe flocked to Cologne for the German Jazz Prize on 13 June – and that’s no ...

Atlantic Jazz Collective featuring Norma Winstone and Joe LaBarbera: Seascape (Alma Records ACD50252) As the title implies, ...

Norwegian Jan Gunnar Hoff’s model of Scandi-fusion sends sparks off the rails for this album, with a quartet whose members ...

With the death of drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo in Cape Town on Friday 13 June a great sadness reverberated through the jazz ...

In 2023, Swedish bassist and composer Vilhelm Bromander released his new big band’s debut album. That ensemble now takes its ...